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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d4513ad31809 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +NET_FAILOVER +============ + +Overview +======== + +The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs +to create and destroy a failover master netdev and mananges a primary and +standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover +infrastructrure. + +The failover netdev acts a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The +original paravirtual interface is 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. |