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第6章 Configuring PCI passthrough

You can use PCI passthrough to attach a physical PCI device, such as a graphics card or a network device, to an instance. If you use PCI passthrough for a device, the instance reserves exclusive access to the device for performing tasks, and the device is not available to the host.

重要

Using PCI passthrough with routed provider networks

The Compute service does not support single networks that span multiple provider networks. When a network contains multiple physical networks, the Compute service only uses the first physical network. Therefore, if you are using routed provider networks you must use the same physical_network name across all the Compute nodes.

If you use routed provider networks with VLAN or flat networks, you must use the same physical_network name for all segments. You then create multiple segments for the network and map the segments to the appropriate subnets.

To enable your cloud users to create instances with PCI devices attached, you must complete the following:

  1. Designate Compute nodes for PCI passthrough.
  2. Configure the Compute nodes for PCI passthrough that have the required PCI devices.
  3. Deploy the overcloud.
  4. Create a flavor for launching instances with PCI devices attached.

Prerequisites

  • The Compute nodes have the required PCI devices.

6.1. Designating Compute nodes for PCI passthrough

To designate Compute nodes for instances with physical PCI devices attached, you must:

  • create a new role file to configure the PCI passthrough role
  • configure a new overcloud flavor for PCI passthrough to use to tag the Compute nodes for PCI passthrough

Procedure

  1. Generate a new roles data file named roles_data_pci_passthrough.yaml that includes the Controller, Compute, and ComputePCI roles: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack overcloud roles \
 generate -o /home/stack/templates/roles_data_pci_passthrough.yaml \
 Compute:ComputePCI Compute Controller

  2. Open roles_data_pci_passthrough.yaml and edit or add the following parameters and sections:

    Section/ParameterCurrent valueNew value

    Role comment

    Role: Compute

    Role: ComputePCI

    Role name

    name: Compute

    name: ComputePCI

    description

    Basic Compute Node role

    PCI Passthrough Compute Node role

    HostnameFormatDefault

    %stackname%-novacompute-%index%

    %stackname%-novacomputepci-%index%

    deprecated_nic_config_name

    compute.yaml

    compute-pci-passthrough.yaml

  3. Register the PCI passthrough Compute nodes for the overcloud by adding them to your node definition template, node.json or node.yaml. For more information, see Registering nodes for the overcloud in the Director Installation and Usage guide.

  4. Inspect the node hardware: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack overcloud node introspect \
 --all-manageable --provide

    For more information, see Inspecting the hardware of nodes in the Director Installation and Usage guide.

  5. Create the compute-pci-passthrough bare metal flavor to use to tag nodes that you want to designate for PCI passthrough: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack flavor create --id auto \
 --ram <ram_size_mb> --disk <disk_size_gb> \
 --vcpus <no_vcpus> compute-pci-passthrough
    • Replace <ram_size_mb> with the RAM of the bare metal node, in MB.
    • Replace <disk_size_gb> with the size of the disk on the bare metal node, in GB.

    • Replace <no_vcpus> with the number of CPUs on the bare metal node.

      注記

      These properties are not used for scheduling instances. However, the Compute scheduler does use the disk size to determine the root partition size.

  6. Tag each bare metal node that you want to designate for PCI passthrough with a custom PCI passthrough resource class: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack baremetal node set \
 --resource-class baremetal.PCI-PASSTHROUGH <node>

    Replace <node> with the ID of the bare metal node.

  7. Associate the compute-pci-passthrough flavor with the custom PCI passthrough resource class: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack flavor set \
 --property resources:CUSTOM_BAREMETAL_PCI_PASSTHROUGH=1 \
  compute-pci-passthrough

    To determine the name of a custom resource class that corresponds to a resource class of a Bare Metal service node, convert the resource class to uppercase, replace all punctuation with an underscore, and prefix with CUSTOM_.

    注記

    A flavor can request only one instance of a bare metal resource class.

  8. Set the following flavor properties to prevent the Compute scheduler from using the bare metal flavor properties to schedule instances: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack flavor set \
 --property resources:VCPU=0 --property resources:MEMORY_MB=0 \
 --property resources:DISK_GB=0 compute-pci-passthrough

  9. Add the following parameters to the node-info.yaml file to specify the number of PCI passthrough Compute nodes, and the flavor to use for the PCI passthrough designated Compute nodes: 

    parameter_defaults:
  OvercloudComputePCIFlavor: compute-pci-passthrough
  ComputePCICount: 3

  10. To verify that the role was created, enter the following command: 

    (undercloud)$ openstack overcloud profiles list