[PATCH net 4/4] Revert "tun/tap: add ptr_ring consume helper with netdev queue wakeup"
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From: Simon Schippers <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-28 09:26:41
Also in:
kvm, lkml, virtualization
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, tun/tap driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Wang
Landed in mainline as c3da92af07ea on 2026-07-30.
This reverts commit d4c22d70d7253dd727c71484c58d504f6c630343.
There is no netdev queue left to wake after reverting
commit 1d6e569b7d0c ("tun/tap & vhost-net: avoid ptr_ring tail-drop
when a qdisc is present").
Signed-off-by: Simon Schippers <redacted>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 61 ++++-------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 39abc3078097..fed9dfdfcc3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c@@ -145,8 +145,6 @@ struct tun_file { struct list_head next; struct tun_struct *detached; struct ptr_ring tx_ring; - /* Protected by tx_ring.consumer_lock */ - int cons_cnt; struct xdp_rxq_info xdp_rxq; };
@@ -590,13 +588,8 @@ static void __tun_detach(struct tun_file *tfile, bool clean) rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[index], tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues - 1]); ntfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[index]); - spin_lock(&ntfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); ntfile->queue_index = index; ntfile->xdp_rxq.queue_index = index; - ntfile->cons_cnt = 0; - if (__ptr_ring_empty(&ntfile->tx_ring)) - netif_wake_subqueue(tun->dev, index); - spin_unlock(&ntfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues - 1], NULL);
@@ -737,9 +730,6 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file, goto out; } - spin_lock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); - tfile->cons_cnt = 0; - spin_unlock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); tfile->queue_index = tun->numqueues; tfile->socket.sk->sk_shutdown &= ~RCV_SHUTDOWN;
@@ -2126,46 +2116,13 @@ static ssize_t tun_put_user(struct tun_struct *tun, return total; } -/* Callers must hold ring.consumer_lock */ -static void __tun_wake_queue(struct tun_struct *tun, - struct tun_file *tfile, int consumed) -{ - struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(tun->dev, - tfile->queue_index); - - /* Paired with smp_mb__after_atomic() in tun_net_xmit() */ - smp_mb(); - if (netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)) { - tfile->cons_cnt += consumed; - if (tfile->cons_cnt >= tfile->tx_ring.size / 2 || - __ptr_ring_empty(&tfile->tx_ring)) { - netif_tx_wake_queue(txq); - tfile->cons_cnt = 0; - } - } -} - -static void *tun_ring_consume(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile) -{ - void *ptr; - - spin_lock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); - ptr = __ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring); - if (ptr) - __tun_wake_queue(tun, tfile, 1); - - spin_unlock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); - return ptr; -} - -static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile, - int noblock, int *err) +static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_file *tfile, int noblock, int *err) { DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); void *ptr = NULL; int error = 0; - ptr = tun_ring_consume(tun, tfile); + ptr = ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring); if (ptr) goto out; if (noblock) {
@@ -2177,7 +2134,7 @@ static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile, while (1) { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - ptr = tun_ring_consume(tun, tfile); + ptr = ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring); if (ptr) break; if (signal_pending(current)) {
@@ -2214,7 +2171,7 @@ static ssize_t tun_do_read(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile, if (!ptr) { /* Read frames from ring */ - ptr = tun_ring_recv(tun, tfile, noblock, &err); + ptr = tun_ring_recv(tfile, noblock, &err); if (!ptr) return err; }
@@ -3669,16 +3626,6 @@ static int tun_queue_resize(struct tun_struct *tun) dev->tx_queue_len, GFP_KERNEL, tun_ptr_free); - if (!ret) { - for (i = 0; i < tun->numqueues; i++) { - tfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[i]); - spin_lock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); - netif_wake_subqueue(tun->dev, tfile->queue_index); - tfile->cons_cnt = 0; - spin_unlock(&tfile->tx_ring.consumer_lock); - } - } - kfree(rings); return ret; }
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