Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch

Linux's universal TUN driver that provides packet reception and transmission for user-space programs may soon see a 1000x speed-up with a proposed patch sent out today for this network driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-TUN-Driver-1000x

[cl333r]

More like the advertised speed has been fixed.

[KoenDG]

Where is that driver used, I wonder? I mostly recall it from being part of VPN setups?

Sounds good that we're getting more speed, but where?

[V1tol]

Sounds good that we're getting more speed, but where?

As said in patch notes - in apps that trust default advertised speed and too lazy to do some speedtest.

[direc85]

They literally just added more zeros to the speed

[Danny3]

Didn't anybody notice the very slow speed until now?
Were VPNs affected by this?

[asgavar]

Didn't anybody notice the very slow speed until now?
Were VPNs affected by this?

Seemingly this wasn't an actually imposed limit but just an attribute reported for those (virtual) interfaces.

[lucrus]

Clickbait headline

[milkylainen]

Linux obviously doesn't do any default policing.
So that speed is just about as irrelevant as 10MBit as whatever other speed someone slaps onto it.

[Quackdoc]

Title should have "In some cases" appended to it