DTS WG Meeting Minutes - March 27, 2025
Patrick Robb
probb at iol.unh.edu
Tue Apr 1 02:42:58 CEST 2025
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March 27, 2025
Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Luca Vizzarro
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Minutes
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General Discussion
* DPDK 25.03 has been released
* We are aggregating the patches/tickets for the 25.07 DTS roadmap. Initial
proposals are:
* 1. TG abstraction rework (to facilitate performance TGs), testsuite
API additions for perf workloads, and TREX class implementation
* Luca raised that it may be best to leave the perf TGs as child
classes of the current tg abstract class and simply not implement the
capturing methods
* Luca also raises that his asyncsniffer patchseries adds some new
methods of collecting packets, such as collecting until a stop condition is
met (like seeing packet X). This may split out packet send and packet
capture from send_packet_and_capture(), making them independent.
* 2. Write testsuite perf_single_core_fwd
* 3. Write testsuite rte_flow
* 4. Port VF support
* 5. Docs improvements for new users
* Luca has indicated that Thomas Wilks will contribute to this
* 6. Smoke test tweaks to ensure they are not a setup burden
* 7. Rework packet send and receive functions in the Testsuite API
towards supporting IP networking in an L3 environment
* 8. DPDK Testsuite API: This will provide a stable API which will not
be broken going forward (except at agreed upon intervals)
* 9. RSS Support Testsuites
* Work for this is basically done - reviews needed though:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34713
* 10. Non-Development roadmap goals include: Filming a video series
explaining DTS usage, scheduling syncs with testers/developers from DPDK
member companies to introduce them to DTS.
* 11. Update TestResult module in order to give a more human readable
summary of the testsuites
* 12. Improved interactive shell data collection and logging.
* Add a file which exclusively logs the shell interactions
* 13. Add dedicated file manager to handle passing files and artifacts
between the test engine and nodes in a path agnostic manner
* This will be a component of the new DPDK DTS API
* 14. Flexible port binding
* Give the opportunity to test suites to use all or part of the
supplied port topology with the kernel drivers (instead of DPDK). Could be
achieved with a decorator
* This will require the Topology class to be aware of what’s truly
available for DPDK and provide only the right ports for it
* Move these over to:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doTZOOpkv4D5P2w6K7fEJpa_CjzrlMl3mCeDBWtxnko/edit?tab=t.0
* This is a friendly reminder that when you start working on a testsuite,
you should make sure there is a ticket documenting that on DPDK/DTS bugzilla
* Smoke tests do not run from next-dts currently, due to a patch from the
per-test-suites-configuration patch from the end of 25.03.
* Patrick will submit a fix
* Also, it is worth discussing the usefulness of the smoke tests
generally:
* Some tests are confirming simple setup correctness and help
validate DTS has been configured right, while others are testing DPDK more
broadly (like the dpdk-test runs) and may pose a burden to developers
* One option is to keep the smoke tests as they are but default
them to off instead of on
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Patch discussions
* Per testsuite configuration:
* merged
* VF port support:
* In progress
* TREX perf TG support:
* RFC should be submitted this week or next
Bugzilla discussions
* Thomas M cleaned up the Bugzilla board some
* Patrick cleaned up some other tickets - worth taking 1 more look at it
will Paul at a future meeting.
* No other Bugzilla discussion
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Any other business
* Next meeting is April 10, 2025
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