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September 5, 2024
Attendees
1. Patrick Robb
2. Ali Alnubani
3. Jeremy Spewock
4. Juraj Linkeš
5. Luca Vizzarro
6. Alex Chapman
7. Paul Szczepanek
8. Aaron Conole
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Minutes
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General Announcements
* DPDK Summit Montreal: September 24-25
* Some Summit attendees will be visiting the UNH Community Lab on
September 26.
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CI Status
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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* New Community Lab Servers:
* NVIDIA: Patrick is experimenting with some more of the AMD
specific optimization system configs:
* https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/amd_platform.html
*
https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/58017-amd-epyc-9004-tg-data-plane-dpdk.pdf
* Linux Foundation Legal is drafting the agreement with AMD for
them to donate 3 used servers to the community lab, so that’s still in
progress.
* Supermicro has all the documents they need from UNH to continue
with a purchase for an ARM Grace server at the Community Lab. Patrick
has asked for 1 more build modification, which SMC sales has forwarded
on.
* UNH team is still writing the automation scripts for reporting the
check-meson and dts-check-format devtools checks.
* The embedded grafana visualization at
https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/stats/ the Community Lab
Dashboard stats page is broken. The team will resolve and re-deploy
asap.
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Intel Lab
* None
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Github Actions
* None
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Loongarch Lab
* None
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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Pantheon’s contract with ARM is concluding at the end of September,
meaning that Juraj will no longer be working on DTS after September.
* A new maintainer volunteer is needed
* Maybe Patrick
* Maybe someone from ARM
* Other volunteers are welcome
* Patches which they will be trying to wrap up this month:
* API Docs Generation
* Capabilities checks
* Externally compiled DPDK
* Results JSON
* Next-dts patches to be merged on Monday:
* add pktgen and testpmd changes
* Mtu modification:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240826211327.16082-2-jspew...@iol.unh.edu/
* API Docs generation patch
* UNH folks will do some more runs with the testsuite patches and
add tags (to be done before Monday)
* No movement on the discussion regarding adding l4 port to testpmd
verbose output
* https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/ RFC deadline is September 7
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Any other business
* Next Meeting Sep 19, 2024
