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.