SRIOV support
Enable SR-IOV support on server.
Change-Id: I7dabe340abd398cc0422698112cbdd81804446b7
Epic: PROD-8956
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 348f950..28619e0 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -242,6 +242,25 @@
Note: not recommended to use both pagesizes in concurrently.
+Intel SR-IOV
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing (SR-IOV) specification defines a standardized mechanism to virtualize PCIe devices. The mechanism can virtualize a single PCIe Ethernet controller to appear as multiple PCIe devices.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ linux:
+ system:
+ kernel:
+ sriov: True
+ unsafe_interrupts: False # Default is false. for older platforms and AMD we need to add interrupt remapping workaround
+ rc:
+ local: |
+ #!/bin/sh -e
+ # Enable 7 VF on eth1
+ echo 7 > /sys/class/net/eth1/device/sriov_numvfs; sleep 2; ifup -a
+ exit 0
+
Repositories
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