January 15, 2026
Attendees
* Patrick Robb
* Andrew Bailey
* Luca Vizzarro
* Matthew Labrecque
Minutes
General Discussion
* Next-dts is rebased on DPDK main as of yesterday
* The release candidate 1 (RC1) date is 9 February 2026
* There was a mention on Slack of a legacy DTS testsuite needing to be
disabled in the Intel CI Lab. Patrick reached out to them to request that
they disable this, and mentioned the long term solution to these issues is
for them to switch from legacy DTS to the current DTS. Patrick to continue
this conversation with them.
Patch discussions
* Cryptodev:
* Andrew to overview the config files changes:
* Updating test_run.yaml to add a “use_crypto_virtual_functions”
value,
* Nodes.yaml: Added a new “crypto_interfaces” list just like the
ports list
* Ports list and crypto interfaces list are not mutually exclusive.
* VF creation:
* Echo the contents of sriov_max_vfs to sriov_numvfs.
* E.g. For our QAT card, create 16 VFs per physical function.
* Echo 1 > sys/bus/pci/device/driver/remove
* Echo 1 > sys/bus/{something}/rescan
* After this, the device can be bound again
* What to do with testcase decorators for crypto tests? We don’t need
TGs (which are provided by the func_test and perf_test decorators). It may
make sense to define a new crypto_test decorator.
* Virtio pvvp test suite:
* RFC:
https://patcnasdaqhwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Patrick to review
* Flow offload:
* Patrick to review
* add test case docstring checks to format script
* Patrick can merge
* Automate loading vfio-pci module:
*
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Patrick to review
* Cryptodev: there is a need to load vfio-pci with special arguments
for some QAT devices
* Change default topology to one link:
*
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Andrew has resolved the build error by updating a type hint
* Patrick to do a review
* Luca to review as well, and check the function decorator signature
* Adding the missing RSS rst file:
*
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Update testsuite names:
*
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
* Patrick to merge
Bugzilla discussions
* N/A
Any other business
* Next meeting is Jan 29, 2026
