CONFIG_FAILOVER: Generic failover module

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_FAILOVER:

• prompt: Generic failover module
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.18–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD
• modules built: failover

Help text

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.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module failover CONFIG_FAILOVER : net/Kconfig : "Generic failover module" # in 4.18–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

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