On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:39:38 -0800 Thea Corinne Rossman <thea.ross...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> This is SO helpful -- thank you so much. > > One follow-up question regarding NICs: can multiple containers on the same > host share the same PCI device? If I have a host NIC with (say) VFIO driver > binding, do I have to split it with some kind of SR-IOV so that each > container has its own "NIC" binding? Or, when running DPDK's "devbind" > script, can I set up each one with the same PCI address? Totally depends on what container system you are using. If you have two containers sharing same exact PCI device, chaos would ensue. You might be able to make two VF's on host and pass one to each container; that would make more sense.
