[dpdk-dev] DPDK: Proposal for a patch patch-test integration tree
Thomas F Herbert
therbert at redhat.com
Wed May 27 22:48:47 CEST 2015
This is a proposal to create a patch-test dpdk tree. I welcome feedback
from the dpdk community on this proposal.
This tree will consist of pre-integrated patches submitted to dpdk-dev
mailing list. The purpose of this tree is to help reduce the effort in
reviewing patches and providing feedback to submitters of patches. Also
integrators of dpdk can benefit by having a "linux-next" like tree to
clone and or try new features for performance and breadth of hardware
support. It is the hope that the patch-test tree will provide early
feedback to patch reviewers as well as an assurance of quality to the
project maintainer.
Work Flow and Process:
All patches will be taken from from public submissions to dpdk-dev.org
scraped from dpdk patchwork. Patches will be applied to the patch-test
tree and tested against HEAD as they are received. The feedback from the
testing will be provided to the community. The patch-test tree will
periodically be git pull'ed from dpdk.
Longer term goal:
Initially, the patches will be applied along with some simple smoke
tests. The longer term goal is to automate this process, apply more
extensive tests and post the results in dpdk patchwork,
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/project/dpdk/list/ which would have an
accompanying mailing list for distribution of a results summary of the
tests.
Submissions of test suites will be encouraged from the community
including testing against compilers, architectures, devices, options
etc. The purpose is to try to evolve to widen test coverage for
submitted patches.
--Thomas Herbert
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