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2026-01-23all: remove AUTHORS file and references to itWill Norris1-1/+1
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in the history of Tailscale's open source releases. A Brief History of AUTHORS files --- The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact. The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The Chromium Authors". This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way for the proejct maintainer to know. Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors. They are also clear that: > Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the > project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership. It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright holders. In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so it's ambiguous what that means. Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which provides some additional certification of their right to make the contribution. The source file changes were purely mechanical with: git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g' Updates #cleanup Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2025-11-18all: rename variables with lowercase-l/uppercase-IAlex Chan1-55/+55
See http://go/no-ell Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com> Updates #cleanup Change-Id: I8c976b51ce7a60f06315048b1920516129cc1d5d
2025-09-26cmd/tailscaled: start implementing ts_omit_netstackBrad Fitzpatrick1-1/+1
Baby steps. This permits building without much of gvisor, but not all of it. Updates #17283 Change-Id: I8433146e259918cc901fe86b4ea29be22075b32c Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2025-09-26wgengine/netstack/gro: permit building without GROBrad Fitzpatrick1-1/+2
This only saves ~32KB in the minimal linux/amd64 binary, but it's a step towards permitting not depending on gvisor for small builds. Updates #17283 Change-Id: Iae8da5e9465127de354dbcaf25e794a6832d891b Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2025-02-06wgengine/netstack: block link writes when full rather than dropJames Tucker1-22/+27
Originally identified by Coder and documented in their blog post, this implementation differs slightly as our link endpoint was introduced for a different purpose, but the behavior is the same: apply backpressure rather than dropping packets. This reduces the negative impact of large packet count bursts substantially. An alternative would be to swell the size of the channel buffer substantially, however that's largely just moving where buffering occurs and may lead to reduced signalling back to lower layer or upstream congestion controls. Updates #9707 Updates #10408 Updates #12393 Updates tailscale/corp#24483 Updates tailscale/corp#25169 Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
2024-08-20net/tstun,wgengine{/netstack/gro}: refactor and re-enable gVisor GRO for ↵Jordan Whited1-150/+38
Linux (#13172) In 2f27319baf71681e221904d3a3ffe1badedc8e2e we disabled GRO due to a data race around concurrent calls to tstun.Wrapper.Write(). This commit refactors GRO to be thread-safe, and re-enables it on Linux. This refactor now carries a GRO type across tstun and netstack APIs with a lifetime that is scoped to a single tstun.Wrapper.Write() call. In 25f0a3fc8f6f9cf681bb5afda8e1762816c67a8b we used build tags to prevent importation of gVisor's GRO package on iOS as at the time we believed it was contributing to additional memory usage on that platform. It wasn't, so this commit simplifies and removes those build tags. Updates tailscale/corp#22353 Updates tailscale/corp#22125 Updates #6816 Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
2024-08-03wgengine/netstack: use build tags to exclude gVisor GRO importation on iOS ↵Jordan Whited1-2/+1
(#13015) Updates tailscale/corp#22125 Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
2024-08-02go.mod,net/tstun,wgengine/netstack: implement gVisor TCP GRO for Linux (#12921)Jordan Whited1-13/+172
This commit implements TCP GRO for packets being written to gVisor on Linux. Windows support will follow later. The wireguard-go dependency is updated in order to make use of newly exported IP checksum functions. gVisor is updated in order to make use of newly exported stack.PacketBuffer GRO logic. TCP throughput towards gVisor, i.e. TUN write direction, is dramatically improved as a result of this commit. Benchmarks show substantial improvement, sometimes as high as 2x. High bandwidth-delay product paths remain receive window limited, bottlenecked by gVisor's default TCP receive socket buffer size. This will be addressed in a follow-on commit. The iperf3 results below demonstrate the effect of this commit between two Linux computers with i5-12400 CPUs. There is roughly ~13us of round trip latency between them. The first result is from commit 57856fc without TCP GRO. Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Test Complete. Summary Results: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 4.77 GBytes 4.10 Gbits/sec 20 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 4.77 GBytes 4.10 Gbits/sec receiver The second result is from this commit with TCP GRO. Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Test Complete. Summary Results: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 10.6 GBytes 9.14 Gbits/sec 20 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 10.6 GBytes 9.14 Gbits/sec receiver Updates #6816 Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
2024-07-31go.mod,net/tstun,wgengine/netstack: implement gVisor TCP GSO for Linux (#12869)Jordan Whited1-0/+256
This commit implements TCP GSO for packets being read from gVisor on Linux. Windows support will follow later. The wireguard-go dependency is updated in order to make use of newly exported GSO logic from its tun package. A new gVisor stack.LinkEndpoint implementation has been established (linkEndpoint) that is loosely modeled after its predecessor (channel.Endpoint). This new implementation supports GSO of monster TCP segments up to 64K in size, whereas channel.Endpoint only supports up to 32K. linkEndpoint will also be required for GRO, which will be implemented in a follow-on commit. TCP throughput from gVisor, i.e. TUN read direction, is dramatically improved as a result of this commit. Benchmarks show substantial improvement through a wide range of RTT and loss conditions, sometimes as high as 5x. The iperf3 results below demonstrate the effect of this commit between two Linux computers with i5-12400 CPUs. There is roughly ~13us of round trip latency between them. The first result is from commit 57856fc without TCP GSO. Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Test Complete. Summary Results: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.51 GBytes 2.15 Gbits/sec 154 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.49 GBytes 2.14 Gbits/sec receiver The second result is from this commit with TCP GSO. Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Test Complete. Summary Results: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 12.6 GBytes 10.8 Gbits/sec 6 sender [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 12.6 GBytes 10.8 Gbits/sec receiver Updates #6816 Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>