DPDK Community CI meeting minutes - August 18, 2022

[Lincoln Lavoie]

August 18, 2022

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Attendees

1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Owen Hilyard
3. Juraj Linkeš
4. Lijuan Tu

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Agenda

1. General Announcements
2. CI Status
3. Test Development
4. Any other business

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Minutes

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General Announcements

* Next governing board meeting is August 23, rescheduled to avoid the User
Space Summit.  Aaron & Lincoln will pull together updates from the CI
community for the meeting.  Anything specific the community would like us
to include?
   * Raise the issue about reviewing DTS patches.
* DPDK User Space Summit agenda posted:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab

* Maintenance items were completed, and patchworks polling resumed on
Monday.  System was caught up by Tuesday with patches that came in during
the maintenance window.  The maintenance completed included a full update
of Jenkins and removing test artifacts older than 8 months, as well as some
migrations to updated pipelines and job definitions.
* Next working update and streamline the container builds used for the
compile, unit, and abi tests.  This will add latest OSes, such as RHEL 9
and Ubuntu 22.04, as well as enable building images for both x86_64 and
aarch64.  Once aarch64 images are available, we will begin using a
dedicated aarch64 container runner.
* Open question, what are the “official” lists of OSes supported by DPDK.
Both on the new (i.e. RHEL latest) and older (i.e. CentOS 8) ends?  So, we
can know what to add and remove from testing.  Similarly, what is the
commitment to support the newest versions of compilers that might be
included in a latest release?
* For the kmods testing, some discussion is needed around strategy to track
the dpdk-kmods repo.
* Open Items
   * Email list issue with too many recipients was fixed, with the
test-reports list’s limit increased to 100.
   * OpenSSL patch is still pending review and backport, blocking enabling
the OpenSSL unit testing request from the community:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23985
   * Dell server, traffic generator for ampere Altra aarch64 test bed, is
still down, pending a hardware replacement being handled through the Dell
warranty (which arm holds).

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Intel Lab

* Intel lab may need to have some downtime, because of electrical grid
controls being put into place because of the heat wave in the region.  If
the lab gets the notice / details from the government, the intel team will
send notice to the ci email list.
* Still having issues with Freebsd 13.1 and messon.  The new version of
meson included with the OS causes issues, but using an older version of
meson seems to work.  Current ci install scripts specify version 0.49.2,
but that is “very” old.  Question for the techboard, what is the plan for
supporting newer or updated versions.  Lincoln & Owen will queue up a
discussion with techboard on this topic.


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Github Actions

* No updates.

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Test Development

* Discussion on DTS unit test suite, per Lijuan’s email
   * Proposal to remove some unit tests from DTS, where these test cases
update dpdk source code.  Intel team will make a patch.  If extra
information is needed from “inside” dpdk, tracepoints should be added to
the upstream dpdk.
* Reviewers are still needed for DTS patches from Juraj

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Any other business

* Next CI Meeting: September 1, 2022

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*Lincoln Lavoie*
Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
lylavoie at iol.unh.edu
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