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>
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index ba554ce..f738a6f 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -432,6 +432,19 @@
config PAGE_POOL
bool
+config FAILOVER
+ tristate "Generic failover module"
+ help
+ 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.
+
endif # if NET
# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which flavour.