<div dir="ltr"> March 26, 2026 Attendees * Patrick Robb * Luca Vizzarro * Adam Hassick * Manjunatha * Paul Szczepanek Minutes General Discussion * RC3 has been released * Next-dts patches were pulled in for RC3 * Plan is for no DTS patches to go into RC4 * Patrick will be resigning from his position at UNH-IOL on April 2, and starting a (non-DPDK) role at AMD * Patrick will email the “broader DPDK community” sharing this news today * Lincoln Lavoie will chair the DTS and DPDK CI meetings for the medium * Patrick is interested in staying on as DTS maintainer in his personal capacity * Should still be able to do: * Code review * Submit some patches * Test patches on hardware (I can use the UNH hardware over VPN/SSH, just like all other members of the DPDK community) * Work on DTS roadmaps for each DPDK release * Probably will not be able to join DTS/CI meetings in the future * Patrick will still travel to DPDK Stockholm to give his scheduled DTS presentation * DTS staffing will not be affected by this change - we will still have 2 students allocated towards DTS development * Currently we actually have 3, as we have a new student (Koushik) who is onboarding to DTS. * Manju is going to setup DTS on one of his DPDK systems in the coming weeks/months and if he has any issues the students at UNH can help * Reminder: now that our patches for better supporting 1 link testing are merged, UNH should run testbeds of at least 1 of each “topology” type Patch discussions * Merged Patches: * Cryptodev testsuite * Merged * Packet Sniffing * Merged a patch that forces the sniffer to only sniff incoming packets * We used to have this but lost it in the most recent DTS sniffer rework. This was noticed when we were further testing the single link * One link default topology: * Merged * Add missing crypto driver: * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260319145525.294352-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260319145525.294352-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Merged * Update PASS/SKIP logic * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260320182126.35724-1-dmarx@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260320182126.35724-1-dmarx@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Merged * Test suite filtering (filter out testsuites which have had all of their testcases filtered out by capabilities or config) * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260320210216.259728-1-probb@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260320210216.259728-1-probb@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Merged * DPDK shell fixes (fixed some issues introduced or raised by adding the cryptodev shell) * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=37730&state=*">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=37730&state=*</a> * Merged * Port speed capabilities: * 100% ready, so will merge this early in the next DPDK release (26.07) * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260309202928.200755-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260309202928.200755-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Re-naming testsuites: * Has a doc failure from the Intel CI Lab * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260202170924.398261-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260202170924.398261-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/</a> * PVVP Virtio testcase: * 100% ready, but need to communicate this is going to be merged to the virtio maintainer, and then do so * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20251217195155.32350-1-dmarx@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20251217195155.32350-1-dmarx@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Support for no_link topology: * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260224163200.39360-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260224163200.39360-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/</a> * Fixes a couple bugs associated with running DTS in “no link” mode * This is relevant for the first time, as cryptodev_throughput is our first actual no_link test (actually a 1 link test right now by necessity) * Flow offload: * <a href="https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=37646">https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=37646</a> * Adds support for validating VXLAN packet flow rules Bugzilla discussions * Andrew continues to do a great job keeping tabs on the tickets and making updates Any other business * 26.07 roadmap: Patrick to work on this tomorrow and share the draft roadmap out to the DTS group, then we will finalize next Thursday at the CI meeting. * Next meeting is Apr 9, 2026 </div>