May 28, 2026 Community CI Minutes

[Thomas Monjalon]

> Loongson Lab
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>  From Gaojuxin on May 6, 2026
> I've investigated and resolved the issues with the loongson CI lab.
> The main problems were:
>  1. DNS resolution failure - The loongson machine couldn't resolve
> external domains (patches.dpdk.org), which prevented the CI from
> fetching test tasks. This has been fixed.
>  2. GitHub connectivity - Connection to github.com was intermittent.
> I've configured git to use a proxy permanently.
>  After the fixes, I've re-run all the previously failed series (37863,
> 37871, 37874, 37875, 37884, 37902, 37904, 37912, 37913, 37914, 37921)
> and submitted the test results.
> Regarding the "unknown failures" reported - these are expected on
> LoongArch architecture. 36 test cases fail due to
> architecture-specific limitations (such as eal_flags_*, mbuf_autotest,
> timer_autotest, etc.), which are not actual CI
>  issues but rather unsupported features on LoongArch.

If a feature is unsupported, the test should be skipped.

> The CI lab is now operational and running normally.

Permanent failures are a problem.
The LoonArch reports have too many failures,
it is disturbing maintainers work,
so we have to disable it.
Test reports won't be accepted anymore until the situation is cleared,
sorry.