On 04/13/2016 06:26 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:04:47AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> This patch disables the default qdisc by explicitly setting the
>> IFF_NO_QUEUE private flag so that now the tun xmit path do not
>> require any lock by default.
>>
>> The default qdisc was first removed as a side effect of commit
>> f84bb1eac027 ("net: fix IFF_NO_QUEUE for drivers using alloc_netdev")
>> and recently restored with commit 016adb7260f4 ("tuntap: restore default
>> qdisc")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
> I wonder about this back and forth.
> Jason, do you see a workload where the default qdisc
> is preferable?
I don't know, but we used to behave like this so we'd better keep it.
An interesting thing is I vaguely remember that you have some concern
when I propose IFF_NO_QUEUE for macvtap[1] :)
I think this could be done by management or more safe by introducing a
new tun flag (TUN_NO_QUEUE).
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/24/147
>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/tun.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> index 42992dc..0a0b63c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> @@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ static void tun_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
>>
>> break;
>> }
>> + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
>> }
>>
>> /* Character device part */
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1
