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by justincormack 4048 days ago
SR-IOV should not really make you nervous, it uses the iommu. Billing might have some issues I guess.

There are higher performance virtual network setups eg see http://www.virtualopensystems.com/en/solutions/guides/snabbs...

Container networking has overheads, the virtual network pairs and the natting is not costless at all, and most people with network intensive applications are allocating physical interfaces to containers anyway.