29 May, 2018

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• 30c8bd5aa   net: Introduce generic failover module ... Browse Code »

  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
  Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

  Sridhar Samudrala

  2018-05-29 10:59:54 +0800