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| author | Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> | 2018-05-24 09:55:13 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -0400 |
| commit | 30c8bd5aa8b2c78546c3e52337101b9c85879320 (patch) | |
| tree | 25da9be5c372249e23b95eeda081fdad34417dc4 /Documentation/IPMI.txt | |
| parent | cb1603948a0b80f27d2525bb7ac0d4bbb3849926 (diff) | |
net: Introduce generic failover module
The failover module provides a generic interface for paravirtual drivers
to register a netdev and a set of ops with a failover instance. The ops
are used as event handlers that get called to handle netdev register/
unregister/link change/name change events on slave pci ethernet devices
with the same mac address as the failover netdev.
This enables paravirtual drivers to use a VF as an accelerated low latency
datapath. It also allows migration of VMs with direct attached VFs by
failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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