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

[Xu, Qian Q]

Great to see the issue is resolved. Thanks Lei and Jeremy. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Plsek [mailto:jplsek at iol.unh.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 4:07 AM
> To: Yao, Lei A <lei.a.yao at intel.com>
> Cc: Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu at intel.com>; O'Driscoll, Tim
> <tim.odriscoll at intel.com>; ci at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-ci] DPDK Community Lab Meeting Minutes, Tuesday May
> 7th
> 
> Hmmm, I am unable to reproduce the issue now. Maybe that was the case.
> I thought I made sure to stop the OVS processes and VMs before trying to
> unbind VFIO. I'll let you know if I experience it again.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:23 PM Yao, Lei A <lei.a.yao at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jeremy Plsek
> UNH InterOperability Laboratory