set hostNetwork to True for TPUGKEJob #641
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I suppose we should check here that workload identity is not being used, not just gcs fuse --- as sync'ed offline, will do more testing to see whether necessary before merging.
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Can I have more context about how hostNetwork and dnsPolicy do not work with Workload Identity.
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GKE Workload Identity requires forcing metadata traffic to a specific pod. However, if you set hostNetwork true that's no longer possible so it doesn't work.
Note your GKE clusters can keep on using Workload Identity, however the issue is that it won't work for any pod that is using hostNetwork: true. All your other pods using hostNetwork: false will continue to be able to utilize workload identity just like before.
This helped increase v5e-512 performance from 50% MFU to 58% MFU. The gains could be more significant when going beyond 2 slices.
Majority of Google TPU benchmarks ran on GKE use hostNetwork=true. That's also what XPK sets by default.
The performance increase is due to being able to bypass container networking. Setting hostNetwork=true allows us to directly utilize the host NICs without having to first traverse container NIC and linux network bridges.