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

[Thomas Monjalon]

TO be discussed today in the techboard meeting.
Adding Patrick to the discussion.


26/02/2025 17:44, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Robin Jarry [mailto:rjarry at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2025 13.22
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I suppose grout only uses basic features of drivers and very few libraries, so the additional code coverage (not considering grout itself) would be minimal.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not opposed to using hardware resources for grout testing.
> However, such UNH hardware testing also requires other resources, e.g. work on test scripts; resources I think can be better utilized elsewhere than HW testing with grout.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > --
> > Robin