Maturity Review Certification of SmartNIC

Yihui Wang

To be updated.

The SmartNIC is requesting a maturity review for Akraino release 3.

This page references the requirements in BP Graduation Review Processes and Criteria specifically the table cell for Incubation -> (Mature) on the second row from the bottom of the page.

• Validation lab check
  • https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/att/job/Install_REC_on_OpenEdge1/
  • https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/att-blu-val/bluval_results/rec/master/20191113-171545/results/k8s/conformance/
  • https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/ampere/iec-type4/logs/
  • https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/nokia/job/Install_REC_on_Espoo_OE/
  • https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/nokia/bluval_results/rec/master/20191114-083809/results/k8s/conformance/
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• Multiple Jenkins jobs exist for deploying REC to multiple clusters and for RIC installation and various testing. The jobs listed below are the primary CD jobs. Additional job logs can be viewed on Nexus, but these listed here are the relevant ones for Akraino maturity review
• Bytedance Peng He
• NVIDIA Mellanox long chen
• Release inclusion check 
  
  • Release 3 Planning
• was included in Akraino Release 3
• SW quality/functional check Yihui Wang
  • The function and performance of the OVS-DPDK SW offloaded to BlueField Smartnic is passing the maturity review verification in Nividia Mellanox Lab.
• SW had passed the lynis check and log uploaded.
• HW definition check (Fei Fei, long chen )
• A reference platform is documented for the primary validation lab https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Radio+Edge+Cloud+Validation+Lab
• Additional hardware information for non-reference platforms (REC/TA targets broad hardware support) is available in the installation guide https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/REC+Installation+Guide#RECInstallationGuide-HardwareRequirements:
• Support for ARM hardware is being actively developed but may not be complete in time for Akraino release 2 https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Porting+REC+on+aarch64
• Upstream dependency check (Peng He  )
• The upstream dependencies are enumerated in non-machine-readable form on the wiki https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/REC+Architecture+Document#RECArchitectureDocument-ComponentsofRadioEdgeCloud and in machine readable form in the Gerrit repos as described in https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Gerrit+Code+Repository+Overview
• Documentation check
• Documentation was created for Akraino Release  3 and there are no documentation issues
• Community Health and Stability check (Yihui Wang  )
• Meetings are held weekly and minutes are published with a list of attendees Meetings of IEC Type 5: SmartNIC for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family
• Meeting contents include welcoming new participants and providing an introduction to the projects as well as discussing ongoing progress
• Contributions from Tencent, Ampere, Inwinstack, Arm, are working on adding ARM support to the previously x86-only code https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/#/q/topic:aarch64-support+(status:open+OR+status:merged)