OVS Testing in the Community Lab

[Adam Hassick]

Hi Aaron,

I'm working on enabling OVS testing in the community lab. Currently, I
have a compile test set up which follows the steps defined in the OVS
documentation (https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/dpdk/)
and consumes the shared libraries produced by the DPDK native GCC
compile test that we run. This way, we can save some compute resources
by not compiling DPDK an additional time. However, this will mean that
the OVS compile test will not run if the DPDK compile test fails in
any environment, but I think that behavior is acceptable. What do you
think?

The OVS compile test has passed successfully with DPDK main, which is promising.

I'm unsure what the scope of our testing should be as well. Should we
run the compile tests on all of our VM/container environments (to get
good distro coverage), or just a few? And should we only run periodic
testing on main or include LTS, next-* branches?

Regards,
Adam