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 <[email protected]>
I wonder about this back and forth.
Jason, do you see a workload where the default qdisc
is preferable?
> ---
> 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
