The device plugin will register the SR-IOV enabled devices on the host, specified as rootDevices in sriov-conf.yaml. Helper systemd unit file is provided, which enables SR-IOV for the above rootDevices

NOTE: This assumes homogenous nodes in the cluster

Install

To install and configure multus-cni on all nodes, along with sriov-cni, vfioveth-cni and sriov-network-device-plugin

kubectl apply -f .
kubectl get nodes -o json | jq '.items[].status.allocatable' # should list "intel.com/sriov_*"

Tests

Default only

To test if default connectivity is working

kubectl apply -f test/pod.yaml
kubectl exec test -- ip a                        # should see one interface only

Bridge

To test multus with second interface created by bridge plugin

kubectl apply -f test/bridge
kubectl exec test-bridge -- ip a                 # should see two interfaces
ip a show mynet                                  # bridge created on host if it doesnt exist already

SR-IOV

To test multus with second interface created by sriov plugin

kubectl apply -f test/sriov

kubectl exec test-sriov -- ip a                  # second interface is a VF

kubectl exec test-sriov-dpdk -- ip a             # veth pair with details of VF
kubectl exec test-sriov-dpdk -- ls -l /dev/vfio