wgengine: update comments, remove redundant code in forceFullWireguardConfig

Change-Id: I464a0bce36e3a362c7d7ace0e8d2dd77fa825ee2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
pull/5637/head
Brad Fitzpatrick 2 years ago committed by Brad Fitzpatrick
parent d34dd43562
commit 33ee2c058e

@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ import (
"tailscale.com/util/clientmetric"
"tailscale.com/util/deephash"
"tailscale.com/util/mak"
"tailscale.com/version"
"tailscale.com/wgengine/filter"
"tailscale.com/wgengine/magicsock"
"tailscale.com/wgengine/monitor"
@ -537,12 +536,18 @@ func (e *userspaceEngine) pollResolver() {
var debugTrimWireguard = envknob.OptBool("TS_DEBUG_TRIM_WIREGUARD")
// forceFullWireguardConfig reports whether we should give wireguard
// our full network map, even for inactive peers
// forceFullWireguardConfig reports whether we should give wireguard our full
// network map, even for inactive peers.
//
// TODO(bradfitz): remove this after our 1.0 launch; we don't want to
// enable wireguard config trimming quite yet because it just landed
// and we haven't got enough time testing it.
// TODO(bradfitz): remove this at some point. We had a TODO to do it before 1.0
// but it's still there as of 1.30. Really we should not do this wireguard lazy
// peer config at all and just fix wireguard-go to not have so much extra memory
// usage per peer. That would simplify a lot of Tailscale code. OTOH, we have 50
// MB of memory on iOS now instead of 15 MB, so the other option is to just give
// up on lazy wireguard config and blow the memory and hope for the best on iOS.
// That's sad too. Or we get rid of these knobs (lazy wireguard config has been
// stable!) but I'm worried that a future regression would be easier to debug
// with these knobs in place.
func forceFullWireguardConfig(numPeers int) bool {
// Did the user explicitly enable trimmming via the environment variable knob?
if b, ok := debugTrimWireguard.Get(); ok {
@ -551,13 +556,6 @@ func forceFullWireguardConfig(numPeers int) bool {
if opt := controlclient.TrimWGConfig(); opt != "" {
return !opt.EqualBool(true)
}
// On iOS with large networks, it's critical, so turn on trimming.
// Otherwise we run out of memory from wireguard-go goroutine stacks+buffers.
// This will be the default later for all platforms and network sizes.
if numPeers > 50 && version.OS() == "iOS" {
return false
}
return false
}

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