linux/drivers/net
Sridhar Samudrala cfc80d9a11 net: Introduce net_failover driver
The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs
to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and
standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover
infrastructure.

The failover netdev acts a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The
original paravirtual interface gets registered as 'standby' slave netdev and
a passthru/vf device with the same MAC gets registered as 'primary' slave
netdev. Both 'standby' and 'failover' netdevs are associated with the same
'pci' device. The user accesses the network interface via 'failover' netdev.
The 'failover' netdev chooses 'primary' netdev as default for transmits when
it is available with link up and running.

This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable an alternate low latency
datapath. It also enables hypervisor controlled live migration of a VM with
direct attached VF 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>
2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
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appletalk
arcnet
bonding net: include hash policy in LAG changeupper info 2018-05-24 23:10:57 -04:00
caif
can can: hi311x: Work around TX complete interrupt erratum 2018-05-10 18:25:30 +02:00
dsa net: dsa: dsa_loop: Make dynamic debugging helpful 2018-05-25 16:46:29 -04:00
ethernet net: stmmac: Use mutex instead of spinlock 2018-05-28 22:54:15 -04:00
fddi
fjes
hamradio mkiss: remove redundant check for len > 0 2018-04-25 14:12:06 -04:00
hippi hippi: fix spelling mistake: "Framming" -> "Framing" 2018-05-18 13:44:08 -04:00
hyperv netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
ieee802154 net: ieee802154: mcr20a: do not leak resources on error path 2018-04-23 20:56:23 +02:00
ipvlan ipvlan: call netdevice notifier when master mac address changed 2018-05-16 11:59:41 -04:00
netdevsim
phy Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-26 19:46:15 -04:00
plip
ppp ppp: remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl 2018-05-24 22:55:07 -04:00
slip
team net: include hash policy in LAG changeupper info 2018-05-24 23:10:57 -04:00
usb drivers: net: Remove device_node checks with of_mdiobus_register() 2018-05-16 14:20:36 -04:00
vmxnet3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-21 16:01:54 -04:00
wan
wimax
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-26 19:46:15 -04:00
xen-netback
dummy.c
eql.c
geneve.c geneve: configure MTU based on a lower device 2018-04-20 11:20:05 -04:00
gtp.c
ifb.c
Kconfig net: Introduce net_failover driver 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macsec.c Revert "macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()" 2018-04-16 10:01:12 -04:00
macvlan.c macvlan: Use software path for offloaded local, broadcast, and multicast traffic 2018-04-25 08:26:19 -07:00
macvtap.c
Makefile net: Introduce net_failover driver 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
mdio.c
mii.c
net_failover.c net: Introduce net_failover driver 2018-05-28 22:59:54 -04:00
netconsole.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c
rionet.c
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tap.c
thunderbolt.c
tun.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-26 19:46:15 -04:00
veth.c
virtio_net.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-26 19:46:15 -04:00
vrf.c vrf: add CRC32c offload to device features 2018-05-28 22:55:13 -04:00
vsockmon.c
vxlan.c vxlan: add ttl inherit support 2018-04-17 13:53:13 -04:00
xen-netfront.c