[dpdk-ci] DPDK Community Lab Meeting Minutes, Tuesday May 7th

[Xu, Qian Q]

> - For Intel, after binding drivers to VFIO for OVS tests, can't bind back to
> I40E/IXGBE. Jeremy will send details in email.

+ Lei in the loop. Lei, any comments for it? Thx. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ci [mailto:ci-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim
> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 9:27 PM
> To: ci at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-ci] DPDK Community Lab Meeting Minutes, Tuesday May 7th
> 
> Jeremy is working on setting up the OVS tests on the Intel and Mellanox
> machines. Issues have been encountered with both setups.
> - For Intel, after binding drivers to VFIO for OVS tests, can't bind back to
> I40E/IXGBE. Jeremy will send details in email.
> - For Mellanox, having issues trying to set up using VFIO. Jeremy will follow up
> with Ali and Thomas.
> 
> Testing is currently paused while Ali updates the Mellanox firmware. This will be
> done today and tests should restart after that.
> 
> There's a security issue if patches contains malicious code. Tests run on all
> servers with root permissions. Possible solutions include: stop running tests as
> root, run tests in containers, implement static analysis of patches prior to
> running. Ali will investigate and make a recommendation.