History log of /linux-master/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# a266ef69 29-Jan-2023 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Documentation: networking: correct spelling

Correct spelling problems for Documentation/networking/ as reported
by codespell.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129231053.20863-5-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>


# 738baea4 15-Nov-2021 Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>

Documentation: networking: net_failover: Fix documentation

Update net_failover documentation with missing and incomplete
details to get a proper working setup.

Signed-off-by: Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>
Reviewed-by: Krishna Kumar <krikku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# f8a0fea9 03-Mar-2020 Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

docs: networking: net_failover: Fix a few typos

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 28809849 11-Jul-2018 Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>

docs: networking: Fix failover build warnings

Currently building the net_failover docs causes a bunch of warnings to
be emitted. These warnings are all related to indentation and correctly
highlight missing '::' (for code sections). It looks, from other rst
files in Documentation, that the first column should be indented 2
spaces.

Add '::' before code snippets and indent all snippets uniformly starting
with 2 spaces.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# ba5e4426 24-May-2018 Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>

virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available

This patch enables virtio_net to switch over to a VF datapath when STANDBY
feature is enabled and a VF netdev is present with the same MAC address.
It allows live migration of a VM with a direct attached VF without the need
to setup a bond/team between a VF and virtio net device in the guest.

It uses the API that is exported by the net_failover driver to create and
and destroy a master failover netdev. When STANDBY feature is enabled, an
additional netdev(failover netdev) is created that acts as a master device
and tracks the state of the 2 lower netdevs. The original virtio_net netdev
is marked as 'standby' netdev and a passthru device with the same MAC is
registered as 'primary' netdev.

The hypervisor needs to unplug the VF device from the guest on the source
host and reset the MAC filter of the VF to initiate failover of datapath
to virtio before starting the migration. After the migration is completed,
the destination hypervisor sets the MAC filter on the VF and plugs it back
to the guest to switch over to VF datapath.

This patch is based on the discussion initiated by Jesse on this thread.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=151189725224231&w=2

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# cfc80d9a 24-May-2018 Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>

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>