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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: orphan queued skbs if device tx can stall
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 15:41 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > I think it's a bad interface too but it's in a userspace ABI
> > now so I suspect we are stuck with it for now. We can try deprecating
> > but we can't just drop it.
> >
>
> By the way, skb orphaning should already be done in skb_orphan_try(),
> not sure why its done again in tun_net_xmit().

I think it's for when some tx flags are set.

> Note we perform orphaning right before giving skb to device on premise
> it'll be sent (and freed) in a reasonable amount of time.

Right. No way to ensure this with tun :(

> With following patch, no more qdisc on top of tun device,

I'll test this, thanks.

> yet user can
> change the limit

Question: if tun is moved between namespaces after tx queue len
is changed, will it get a queueing qdisc then?
If yes we need some other hack to address that ...

> (I would be curious to know if anybody changes tun
> txqueuelen and why)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index bb8c72c..c4a00cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static int tun_net_close(struct net_device *dev)
> static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
> + int limit;
>
> tun_debug(KERN_INFO, tun, "tun_net_xmit %d\n", skb->len);
>
> @@ -396,7 +397,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> sk_filter(tun->socket.sk, skb))
> goto drop;
>
> - if (skb_queue_len(&tun->socket.sk->sk_receive_queue) >= dev->tx_queue_len) {
> + limit = dev->tx_queue_len ? : TUN_READQ_SIZE;
> + if (skb_queue_len(&tun->socket.sk->sk_receive_queue) >= limit) {
> if (!(tun->flags & TUN_ONE_QUEUE)) {
> /* Normal queueing mode. */
> /* Packet scheduler handles dropping of further packets. */
> @@ -521,7 +523,7 @@ static void tun_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
> /* Zero header length */
> dev->type = ARPHRD_NONE;
> dev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOARP | IFF_MULTICAST;
> - dev->tx_queue_len = TUN_READQ_SIZE; /* We prefer our own queue length */
> + dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
> break;
>
> case TUN_TAP_DEV:
> @@ -532,7 +534,7 @@ static void tun_net_init(struct net_device *dev)
>
> eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
>
> - dev->tx_queue_len = TUN_READQ_SIZE; /* We prefer our own queue length */
> + dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
> break;
> }
> }
>


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