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The 10Mbps link speed was set in 2004 when the ethtool interface was initially added to the tun driver. It might have been a good assumption 18 years ago, but CPUs and network stack came a long way since then. Other virtual ports typically report much higher speeds. For example, veth reports 10Gbps since its introduction in 2007. Some userspace applications rely on the current link speed in certain situations. For example, Open vSwitch is using link speed as an upper bound for QoS configuration if user didn't specify the maximum rate. Advertised 10Mbps doesn't match reality in a modern world, so users have to always manually override the value with something more sensible to avoid configuration issues, e.g. limiting the traffic too much. This also creates additional confusion among users. Bump the advertised speed to at least match the veth. Alternative might be to explicitly report UNKNOWN and let the user decide on a right value for them. And it is indeed "the right way" of fixing the problem. However, that may cause issues with bonding or with some userspace applications that may rely on speed value to be reported (even though they should not). Just changing the speed value should be a safer option. Users can still override the speed with ethtool, if necessary. RFC discussion is linked below. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221021114921.3705550-1-i.maximets@ovn.org/ Link: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2022-July/051958.html Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031173953.614577-1-i.maximets@ovn.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.