May 28, 2026 Community CI Minutes

[Patrick Robb]

> On May 28, 2026, at 9:52 AM, Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie at iol.unh.edu> wrote:
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> Attendees
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> 1. Lincoln Lavoie, UNH
> 2. Adam Hassick, UNH
> 3. Andrew Bailey, UNH
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> Minutes
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> General Announcements
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> * None
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> CI Status
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> AWS Lab
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> * No updates
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> UNH-IOL Community Lab
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> * Fedora 44 unit testing is rolling out for DPDK mainline and 25.11,
> we just need to finish updating our arm64 VM runners, which should be
> done in the next day or so.
> ** There are backports needed for the 23.11 and 24.11 LTS releases, it
> is currently disabled for those branches.
> * FreeBSD 14.0 unit testing has been rolled out, now that these are fixed.
> * We applied some fine tuning, core pinning on the Intel 40G NIC,
> aiming to better even out the performance testing.
> * Continuing to work on migration to the “new DTS” for all performance testing.
> * DTS code coverage report planning
> ** DTS test coverage reporting should go into the 26.07 release, v1
> patch submitted.
> ** Should we track coverage “per NIC / PMD” or just for “DTS (i.e.
> combining coverage reports across DTS)”?
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> Intel Lab
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> * No updates
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> Github Actions
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> * No updates
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> Loongson Lab
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> From Gaojuxin on May 6, 2026
> I've investigated and resolved the issues with the loongson CI lab.
> The main problems were:
> 1. DNS resolution failure - The loongson machine couldn't resolve
> external domains (patches.dpdk.org), which prevented the CI from
> fetching test tasks. This has been fixed.
> 2. GitHub connectivity - Connection to github.com was intermittent.
> I've configured git to use a proxy permanently.
> After the fixes, I've re-run all the previously failed series (37863,
> 37871, 37874, 37875, 37884, 37902, 37904, 37912, 37913, 37914, 37921)
> and submitted the test results.
> Regarding the "unknown failures" reported - these are expected on
> LoongArch architecture. 36 test cases fail due to
> architecture-specific limitations (such as eal_flags_*, mbuf_autotest,
> timer_autotest, etc.), which are not actual CI
> issues but rather unsupported features on LoongArch.
> The CI lab is now operational and running normally.
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> DTS Improvements & Test Development
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> * The team has submitted v1 or v2 patches for all the DTS 26.07 roadmap.
> * Luca is out on paternity leave.
> * Patrick has done some initial reviews, we need to follow up to make
> sure we’re on track for the release.

I will send additional reviews this weekend. I have a few requests to make - most of the patches look good though.

I am asking Thomas to add my new ssh pub key to dpdk.org git server so I can push to dpdk-next-dts again.

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> Any other business
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> * Next Meeting: June 11, 2026, 10am EDT