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diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index ba554cedb615..f738a6f27665 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -432,6 +432,19 @@ config MAY_USE_DEVLINK 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. |