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

[Yao, Lei A]

Hi, Jeremy

Could you have a check if you kill all OVS related process before
unbind NIC from vfio-pci driver? 
If OVS process is still active, this action will fail. 

BRs
Lei  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, Qian Q
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 10:08 AM
> To: O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odriscoll at intel.com>; ci at dpdk.org; Yao, Lei A
> <lei.a.yao at intel.com>
> Cc: Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: DPDK Community Lab Meeting Minutes, Tuesday May 7th
> 
> > - 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.