<div dir="ltr">##################################################################### March 27, 2025 Attendees * Patrick Robb * Luca Vizzarro ##################################################################### Minutes ===================================================================== General Discussion * DPDK 25.03 has been released * We are aggregating the patches/tickets for the 25.07 DTS roadmap. Initial proposals are: * 1. TG abstraction rework (to facilitate performance TGs), testsuite API additions for perf workloads, and TREX class implementation * Luca raised that it may be best to leave the perf TGs as child classes of the current tg abstract class and simply not implement the capturing methods * Luca also raises that his asyncsniffer patchseries adds some new methods of collecting packets, such as collecting until a stop condition is met (like seeing packet X). This may split out packet send and packet capture from send_packet_and_capture(), making them independent. * 2. Write testsuite perf_single_core_fwd * 3. Write testsuite rte_flow * 4. Port VF support * 5. Docs improvements for new users * Luca has indicated that Thomas Wilks will contribute to this * 6. Smoke test tweaks to ensure they are not a setup burden * 7. Rework packet send and receive functions in the Testsuite API towards supporting IP networking in an L3 environment * 8. DPDK Testsuite API: This will provide a stable API which will not be broken going forward (except at agreed upon intervals) * 9. RSS Support Testsuites * Work for this is basically done - reviews needed though: <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34713">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34713</a> * 10. Non-Development roadmap goals include: Filming a video series explaining DTS usage, scheduling syncs with testers/developers from DPDK member companies to introduce them to DTS. * 11. Update TestResult module in order to give a more human readable summary of the testsuites * 12. Improved interactive shell data collection and logging. * Add a file which exclusively logs the shell interactions * 13. Add dedicated file manager to handle passing files and artifacts between the test engine and nodes in a path agnostic manner * This will be a component of the new DPDK DTS API * 14. Flexible port binding * Give the opportunity to test suites to use all or part of the supplied port topology with the kernel drivers (instead of DPDK). Could be achieved with a decorator * This will require the Topology class to be aware of what’s truly available for DPDK and provide only the right ports for it * Move these over to: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doTZOOpkv4D5P2w6K7fEJpa_CjzrlMl3mCeDBWtxnko/edit?tab=t.0">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doTZOOpkv4D5P2w6K7fEJpa_CjzrlMl3mCeDBWtxnko/edit?tab=t.0</a> * This is a friendly reminder that when you start working on a testsuite, you should make sure there is a ticket documenting that on DPDK/DTS bugzilla * Smoke tests do not run from next-dts currently, due to a patch from the per-test-suites-configuration patch from the end of 25.03. * Patrick will submit a fix * Also, it is worth discussing the usefulness of the smoke tests generally: * Some tests are confirming simple setup correctness and help validate DTS has been configured right, while others are testing DPDK more broadly (like the dpdk-test runs) and may pose a burden to developers * One option is to keep the smoke tests as they are but default them to off instead of on ===================================================================== Patch discussions * Per testsuite configuration: * merged * VF port support: * In progress * TREX perf TG support: * RFC should be submitted this week or next Bugzilla discussions * Thomas M cleaned up the Bugzilla board some * Patrick cleaned up some other tickets - worth taking 1 more look at it will Paul at a future meeting. * No other Bugzilla discussion ===================================================================== Any other business * Next meeting is April 10, 2025 </div>