High level testing of grout with the latest DPDK on UNH hardware

[Robin Jarry]

Hi all,

Since its adoption as part of the DPDK hosted projects, grout has made
lots of progress. Unfortunately, we are still lacking automated
testing on bare metal hardware.

I was wondering if there would be a mutual benefit of testing the
latest DPDK with a real networking application like grout. It would
increase the test coverage of drivers and libraries before releases.

For now, we are only running automated CI on virtual machines with
net_tap ports which is insufficient. Would it be possible to use a
small portion of the hardware time provided by UNH to run validation
tests with grout?

The requirements are yet to be discussed but I wanted to get a first
opinion before anything else.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Robin