Re: [PATCH net 0/4] Revert "tun/tap & vhost-net: apply qdisc backpressure on full ptr_ring to reduce TX drops"
[email protected] Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:20:11 +0000
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Hello: This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main) by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>: On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:22:36 +0200 you wrote: > Commit 1d6e569b7d0c ("tun/tap & vhost-net: avoid ptr_ring tail-drop when > a qdisc is present") did not show a relevant performance regression in my > testing, but on Brett Sheffield's librecast testbed it causes a > significant throughput drop in an IPv6 multicast testcase. The regression > can be pinpointed to multiple iperf3 TCP threads sending: for 8 threads > the throughput dropped from 13.5 Gbit/s to 9.13 Gbit/s. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net,1/4] Revert "tun/tap & vhost-net: avoid ptr_ring tail-drop when a qdisc is present" https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/f11b48aa674b - [net,2/4] Revert "ptr_ring: move free-space check into separate helper" https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/6bc85579c3bb - [net,3/4] Revert "vhost-net: wake queue of tun/tap after ptr_ring consume" https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/8f83be72d9f5 - [net,4/4] Revert "tun/tap: add ptr_ring consume helper with netdev queue wakeup" https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c3da92af07ea You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html