tun/tap driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
• M Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst
• F drivers/net/tap.c
• F drivers/net/tun*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on virtualization (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• [PATCH net-next v7 8/9] tun/tap: drop get ring exports
  2026-01-07 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 6/9] tun/tap: add helper functions to check file type
  2026-01-07 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 4/9] tun/tap: add batched ptr_ring consume functions with netdev queue wakeup
  2026-01-07 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 5/9] tun/tap: add unconsume function for returning entries to ptr_ring
  2026-01-07 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 3/9] tun/tap: add ptr_ring consume helper with netdev queue wakeup
  2026-01-07 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 8/8] tun/tap: drop get ring exports
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 4/8] tun/tap: add batched ring consume function
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 6/8] tun/tap: add helper functions to check file type
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 7/8] tun/tap & vhost-net: use {tun|tap}_ring_{consume|produce} to avoid tail drops
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 7/8] tun/tap/vhost: use {tun|tap}_ring_{consume|produce} to avoid tail drops
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 5/8] tun/tap: add uncomsume function for returning entries to ring
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 3/8] tun/tap: add synchronized ring produce/consume with queue management
  2025-11-20 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v5 7/8] TUN & TAP: Methods to determine whether file is TUN/TAP for vhost_net
  2025-09-22 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v5 4/8] TUN & TAP: Wake netdev queue after consuming an entry
  2025-09-22 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v5 6/8] TUN & TAP: Provide ptr_ring_unconsume wrappers for vhost_net
  2025-09-22 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v5 5/8] TUN & TAP: Provide ptr_ring_consume_batched wrappers for vhost_net
  2025-09-22 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH 4/4] netdev queue flow control for vhost_net
  2025-09-02 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH 3/4] netdev queue flow control for TAP
  2025-09-02 · Simon Schippers <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next V3 1/2] tun: remove unnecessary tun_xdp_hdr structure
  2025-07-01 · Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
• [PATCH V2 net-next 1/2] tun: remove unnecessary tun_xdp_hdr structure
  2025-06-26 · Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
• [PATCH net-next 1/2] tun: remove unnecessary tun_xdp_hdr structure
  2025-06-12 · Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
• [PATCH net-next v12 06/10] tap: Introduce virtio-net hash feature
  2025-05-30 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v12 04/10] tun: Add common virtio-net hash feature code
  2025-05-30 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v12 03/10] tun: Allow steering eBPF program to fall back
  2025-05-30 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v11 06/10] tap: Introduce virtio-net hash feature
  2025-03-17 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v11 04/10] tun: Add common virtio-net hash feature code
  2025-03-17 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v11 03/10] tun: Allow steering eBPF program to fall back
  2025-03-17 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v10 06/10] tap: Introduce virtio-net hash feature
  2025-03-13 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v10 04/10] tun: Add common virtio-net hash feature code
  2025-03-13 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v10 03/10] tun: Allow steering eBPF program to fall back
  2025-03-13 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>