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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
| commit | 5d1646d90e1f2cceb9f0828f4b28318cd0ec7744 (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 5.10.209.upstream/5.10.209upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/failover.rst b/Documentation/networking/failover.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f0c8483cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/failover.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======== +FAILOVER +======== + +Overview +======== + +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 live migration of VMs with direct attached VFs by +failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged. |