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Commit 30c8bd5a authored by Sridhar Samudrala's avatar Sridhar Samudrala Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarSridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cb160394
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