Run dpdk in docker container

[zhun...@gmail.com]

I want to run dpdk application on docker container, the docker use veth pair to connect container and host, but dpdk does not support veth pair. so i have to add the physical nic to docker container, right? If so, how to let multiple containers share one physical nic?

[Justin Cormack]

You can use SR-IOV to create multiple virtual NICs.

Justin

[Jason Anderson]

Yes, SR-IOV is one way to do it, and probably the best performance-wise.  You can also use pipework, which scripts the commands you need to virtualize the interface with a macvlan bridge.  I wrote a blog post on the topic:

http://jason.digitalinertia.net/exposing-docker-containers-with-sr-iov/

Hope that works for you.