Containernet (Docker/Container Networking) with DPDK?

[Thomas Monjalon]

19/11/2024 22:39, Thea Corinne Rossman:
> 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?

You need to split devices.
SR-IOV VF may help, or you can use SF which was designed exactly for this,
with the help of the Linux auxiliary bus.