dts: Request for memory usage test in CI

https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577

Bug ID: 1577
Summary: dts: Request for memory usage test in CI
Product: DPDK
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: DTS
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---

On 11/13/24 Tech board discussed the idea of tracking hugepage memory usage for EAL bringup and basic DPDK workloads for per patch CI testing. Ideally UNH could track a baseline for each DPDK tree, and then for per patch testing compare the baseline for the tree a patch is applied on with the memory usage test result for that patch.

Testcases would be:

1. Start testpmd (EAL starts) and check memory usage.
2. Start some basic l2/l3 forwarding and check memory usage during.
3. (possible) Create flow rules for a device, check memory usage.
4. etc.

Prereqs to adding this test:

1. Add a runtime command to testpmd which will return hugepage memory usage.

Other notes:

1. UNH would need to track tree memory usage for each device/driver, as we can expect usage will not be consistent across devices. In principle it is similar to how UNH stores performance baselines for NIC/tree combinations right now, so no DB schema updates should be required.

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