linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] tun: only queue packets on device

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Message-Id: <20121203.150759.585217844505239949.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:07:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	jasowang@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com, ramirose@...il.com,
	davej@...hat.com, mtk.manpages@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] tun: only queue packets on device

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 22:07:14 +0200

> Historically tun supported two modes of operation:
> - in default mode, a small number of packets would get queued
>   at the device, the rest would be queued in qdisc
> - in one queue mode, all packets would get queued at the device
> 
> This might have made sense up to a point where we made the
> queue depth for both modes the same and set it to
> a huge value (500) so unless the consumer
> is stuck the chance of losing packets is small.
> 
> Thus in practice both modes behave the same, but the
> default mode has some problems:
> - if packets are never consumed, fragments are never orphaned
>   which cases a DOS for sender using zero copy transmit
> - overrun errors are hard to diagnose: fifo error is incremented
>   only once so you can not distinguish between
>   userspace that is stuck and a transient failure,
>   tcpdump on the device does not show any traffic
> 
> Userspace solves this simply by enabling IFF_ONE_QUEUE
> but there seems to be little point in not doing the
> right thing for everyone, by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks Michael.
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