[dpdk-dev] DPDK techboard minutes for 19th of December

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 09:49 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on 2019-12-19
> Sorry for the belated minutes, but the puppy hair killed my desktop
> ;-)
> 
> Attendees: 6/9
> 	- Thomas Monjalon
> 	- Bruce Richardson
> 	- Ferruh Yigit
> 	- Maxime Coquelin
> 	- Olivier Matz
> 	- Stephen Hemminger
> 
> KNI
> The existing KNI device is getting trimmed for 19.02.
> Consensus this is good, and hope is that KNI can get more work
> to improve performance (currently virtio is faster).
> 
> Build System
> Still not enough automated build and testing is done on DPDK patches.
> Investigating getting Open Build Service (SUSE) as continuous build
> service
> to check all patches on all architectures. Luca will do more
> investigation.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bluca:dpdk/dpdk

I've already linked it a few times - it works and builds for various
architectures/distro combinations. GCC only at the moment - RPM using
legacy makefiles, DEB using meson. With more time and work it could
become a full matrix meson/make gcc/clang if desired.

Triggering a source refresh picks up the latest master commit. It would
be pretty simple to automate as a post-receive hook. It can also send
emails on failures with log snippets.

Note that testing not-yet-merged patches on patchwork, although
possible, would require a non-trivial amount of work to integrate.

Let me know if you want to bring this forward or need more info.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi