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Brad Fitzpatrick ad5436af0d tstest/largetailnet, tstest/integration/testcontrol: add in-process large-tailnet benchmark
Add a Go benchmark that exercises a single tailnet client (a [tsnet.Server]
running in the test process) against a synthetic large initial netmap and
a stream of caller-driven peer add/remove deltas, all in-process.

The harness is split in two parts:

  - tstest/largetailnet, a reusable package containing a [Streamer]
    that hijacks the map long-poll on a [testcontrol.Server] via the new
    AltMapStream hook, sends one initial MapResponse with N synthetic
    peers, and forwards caller-supplied delta MapResponses on the same
    stream. Helpers like MakePeer / AllocPeer build synthetic peers with
    unique IDs and addresses derived from the Tailscale ULA range.

  - tstest/largetailnet/largetailnet_test.go, BenchmarkGiantTailnet
    (headless tailscaled workload, no IPN bus subscriber) and
    BenchmarkGiantTailnetBusWatcher (GUI-client workload with one
    Notify subscriber attached). Both are gated on
    --actually-test-giant-tailnet (skipped by default), stand up an
    in-process testcontrol + tsnet.Server, let Up block until the
    initial N-peer netmap has been processed, then ResetTimer and run
    add+remove pairs via b.Loop. Per-delta sync is via a test-only
    [ipnlocal.LocalBackend.AwaitNodeKeyForTest] channel that closes
    once the just-added peer key appears in the netmap (no-watcher
    variant) or via bus-Notify drain (bus-watcher variant).

To support the hijack, [testcontrol.Server] grows an AltMapStream hook
and a small MapStreamWriter interface for benchmarks/stress tests that
need to drive a controlled MapResponse sequence; the normal serveMap
path is untouched when AltMapStream is nil. The streamer answers
non-streaming "lite" map polls (which controlclient issues before the
streaming long-poll to push HostInfo) with an empty MapResponse and
returns immediately, so the streaming poll that follows is the one
that gets the initial netmap.

The benchmark is intended for before/after comparisons of netmap- and
delta-handling changes targeted at large tailnets. CPU profiles on
unmodified main show the expected O(N) hotspots:
setControlClientStatusLocked / authReconfigLocked /
userspaceEngine.Reconfig / setNetMapLocked, plus JSON encoding of the
full Notify.NetMap to bus watchers (which dominates the BusWatcher
variant).

Median ms/op over 10 runs on unmodified main, by tailnet size N:

       N      no-watcher   bus-watcher
   10000          32          166
   50000         222          865
  100000         504         1765
  250000        1551         4696

Recommended invocation:

	go test ./tstest/largetailnet/ -run=^$ \
	    -bench='BenchmarkGiantTailnet(BusWatcher)?$' \
	    -benchtime=2000x -timeout=10m \
	    --actually-test-giant-tailnet \
	    --giant-tailnet-n=250000 \
	    -cpuprofile=/tmp/giant.cpu.pprof

Updates #12542

Change-Id: I4f5b2bb271a36ba853d5a0ffe82054ef2b15c585
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-04-27 11:47:12 -07:00
.bencher bencher: add config to suppress failures on benchmark regressions. 2021-10-01 16:16:02 -07:00
.github misc/genreadme,tempfork/pkgdoc,tsnet: generate README.md files from godoc 2026-04-22 15:13:09 -07:00
appc appc,feature/conn25: prevent clients from forwarding DNS requests and 2026-04-16 09:41:54 -04:00
atomicfile all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
chirp all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
client net/tsdial, ipn/localapi, client/local: let clients dial non-Tailscale addresses directly 2026-04-27 09:33:27 -07:00
clientupdate feature/clientupdate: windows update should use tailscale.exe update (#19438) 2026-04-17 10:28:35 -07:00
cmd cmd/k8s-operator: use dynamic resource names in e2e ingress tests (#19536) 2026-04-27 13:40:46 +01:00
control control/tsp: add lite map update support 2026-04-17 04:19:50 -07:00
derp derp/derpserver: add rate limit config metrics 2026-04-16 12:48:41 -07:00
disco disco: remove experimental label from BindUDPRelayHandshakeState 2026-03-24 11:04:11 -07:00
docs misc: add install-git-hooks.go and git hook for Change-Id tracking 2026-04-08 15:10:53 -07:00
doctor all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
drive cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
envknob envknob/logknob: remove unused package (#19515) 2026-04-24 15:48:06 -07:00
feature posture: add HealthTracker for serial number retrieval (#19181) 2026-04-25 15:42:47 -03:00
gokrazy gokrazy: add arm64 natlab appliance image support 2026-04-10 16:57:19 -07:00
health cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
hostinfo all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
internal cmd/tailscale/cli: allow fetching keys from AWS Parameter Store 2026-01-29 18:09:56 -05:00
ipn tstest/largetailnet, tstest/integration/testcontrol: add in-process large-tailnet benchmark 2026-04-27 11:47:12 -07:00
jsondb all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
k8s-operator cmd/k8s-operator: add affinity rules to DNSConfig (#19360) 2026-04-15 22:39:04 +01:00
kube cmd/containerboot,cmd/k8s-proxy,kube: add authkey renewal to k8s-proxy (#19221) 2026-04-15 16:13:46 +01:00
licenses licenses: update license notices 2026-04-13 12:47:58 -07:00
log cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
logpolicy all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
logtail logtail: run HTTP tests in-memory with memnet + synctest 2026-04-20 13:33:10 -07:00
metrics all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
misc misc/genreadme,tempfork/pkgdoc,tsnet: generate README.md files from godoc 2026-04-22 15:13:09 -07:00
net net/tsdial, ipn/localapi, client/local: let clients dial non-Tailscale addresses directly 2026-04-27 09:33:27 -07:00
omit all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
packages/deb all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
paths all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
portlist portlist: also tb.Skip benchmarks (not just tests) on bad Linux kernels 2026-02-12 13:19:09 -08:00
posture posture: add HealthTracker for serial number retrieval (#19181) 2026-04-25 15:42:47 -03:00
prober all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers 2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
proxymap all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
release release/dist/unixpkgs: include tailscale-online.target in packages 2026-03-26 13:42:58 -07:00
safesocket safesocket, ipn/ipnserver: use PeerCreds on solaris and illumos 2026-03-23 07:45:35 -07:00
safeweb safeweb: add CSRF token helpers and set cookie path to root (#19265) 2026-04-06 12:52:36 -04:00
scripts scripts/installer.sh: handle KDE Linux (#18861) 2026-03-02 18:29:49 +00:00
sessionrecording cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
ssh/tailssh ssh/tailssh: speed up SSH integration tests 2026-04-13 14:18:27 -07:00
syncs cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
tailcfg ipn/ipnlocal,tailcfg: add /debug/tka c2n endpoint (#19198) 2026-04-20 16:00:03 +01:00
tempfork misc/genreadme,tempfork/pkgdoc,tsnet: generate README.md files from godoc 2026-04-22 15:13:09 -07:00
tka tka: Revert "improve logging for Compact and Commit operations" 2026-04-10 17:13:23 +01:00
tool tool/listpkgs: add --has-go-generate filter flag too 2026-04-21 17:51:13 -07:00
tsconsensus cmd/vet: add subtestnames analyzer; fix all existing violations 2026-04-05 15:52:51 -07:00
tsconst all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
tsd tsd, all: add Sys.ExtraRootCAs, plumb through TLS dial paths 2026-04-07 18:10:54 -07:00
tsnet tstest/largetailnet, tstest/integration/testcontrol: add in-process large-tailnet benchmark 2026-04-27 11:47:12 -07:00
tstest tstest/largetailnet, tstest/integration/testcontrol: add in-process large-tailnet benchmark 2026-04-27 11:47:12 -07:00
tstime all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
tsweb all: fix six tests that failed with -count=2 2026-04-13 18:52:57 -07:00
types envknob/logknob: remove unused package (#19515) 2026-04-24 15:48:06 -07:00
util util/pidowner: remove unused package (#19521) 2026-04-27 09:25:46 -07:00
version version: use debug.ReadBuildInfo in CmdName on non-Windows 2026-04-24 09:48:11 -07:00
wf wf: allow limited broadcast to/from permitted interfaces when using an exit node on Windows 2026-01-23 18:30:38 -06:00
wgengine The connmark save/restore rules in mangle/PREROUTING restore the Tailscale bypass fwmark (0x80000) onto reply packets so that rp_filter's reverse-path check routes through the main table instead of table 52. However, the kernel only uses the packet's fwmark during the rp_filter lookup when net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1. (#19537) 2026-04-27 13:52:45 -04:00
wif wif: add AWS ecs for autogenerated OIDC tokens 2026-03-25 14:41:41 -06:00
words Add 'fish' to the list of scales 2026-03-27 08:41:33 +00:00
.gitattributes .: add .gitattributes entry to use Go hunk-header driver 2021-12-03 17:56:02 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: explicitly include tool/go.exe 2026-04-13 18:44:59 -07:00
.golangci.yml .golangci.yml: enforce gliderssh import alias via importas linter 2026-04-07 11:59:38 +01:00
.stignore Add .stignore for syncthing (#18540) 2026-01-27 16:15:17 -08:00
ALPINE.txt docker: bump alpine v3.19 -> 3.22 (#17155) 2025-09-17 20:22:24 +01:00
api.md {api.md,publicapi}: remove old API docs (#13468) 2024-09-13 14:10:33 -06:00
assert_ts_toolchain_match.go .: permit running binary built with TS_GO_NEXT=1 2026-02-23 09:37:04 -08:00
build_dist.sh build_dist.sh: keep --extra-small making a usable build, add --min 2025-10-06 21:15:25 -07:00
build_docker.sh docker: add riscv64 to container image architectures 2026-03-29 07:47:39 -07:00
cache_key_test.go tailscaleroot: add test that tsgo rev is in Go build cache keys 2026-04-13 10:17:22 -07:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md: update code of conduct 2025-10-28 08:58:00 -07:00
CODEOWNERS CODEOWNERS: add the start of an owners file 2023-08-16 15:57:29 -07:00
Dockerfile go.toolchain.branch: switch to Go 1.26 2026-03-04 21:57:05 -08:00
Dockerfile.base all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
flake.lock nix: update flakes to get a nixpkgs version with go 1.26 2026-03-06 04:06:57 -08:00
flake.nix go.mod: bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry (#19500) 2026-04-23 10:39:27 -07:00
go.mod go.mod: bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry (#19500) 2026-04-23 10:39:27 -07:00
go.mod.sri go.mod: bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry (#19500) 2026-04-23 10:39:27 -07:00
go.sum go.mod: bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry (#19500) 2026-04-23 10:39:27 -07:00
go.toolchain.branch go.toolchain.branch: switch to Go 1.26 2026-03-04 21:57:05 -08:00
go.toolchain.next.branch tool/gocross, pull-toolchain.sh: support a "next" Go toolchain 2026-01-27 14:07:35 -08:00
go.toolchain.next.rev go.toolchain.rev: update to Go 1.26.2 2026-04-07 17:09:56 -07:00
go.toolchain.rev go.toolchain.rev: update to Go 1.26.2 2026-04-07 17:09:56 -07:00
go.toolchain.rev.sri go.toolchain.rev: update to Go 1.26.2 2026-04-07 17:09:56 -07:00
go.toolchain.version go.toolchain.rev: update to Go 1.26.2 2026-04-07 17:09:56 -07:00
gomod_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
header.txt all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
LICENSE all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
license_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
Makefile ssh/tailssh: speed up SSH integration tests 2026-04-13 14:18:27 -07:00
PATENTS Move Linux client & common packages into a public repo. 2020-02-09 09:32:57 -08:00
pkgdoc_test.go all: fix duplicate package docs and tighten TestPackageDocs 2026-04-24 19:01:43 -07:00
pull-toolchain.sh pull-toolchain.sh: advance the next hash if it's behind 2026-03-10 06:58:53 -07:00
README.md README: update the version of Go in the README (#19168) 2026-03-28 22:21:41 -03:00
SECURITY.md Add a SECURITY.md for vulnerability reports. 2020-02-11 10:26:41 -08:00
shell.nix go.mod: bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry (#19500) 2026-04-23 10:39:27 -07:00
staticcheck.conf all: cleanup unused code, part 2 (#10670) 2023-12-21 17:40:03 -08:00
update-flake.sh flake.nix: update Nix to use tailscale/go 1.25.2 (#17500) 2025-10-08 14:37:47 -04:00
version_tailscale_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
version_test.go all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it 2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
version-embed.go cmd/printdep: add --next flag to use rc Go build hash instead 2026-01-27 14:49:56 -08:00
VERSION.txt VERSION.txt: this is v1.97.0 (#18898) 2026-03-05 15:24:48 -05:00

Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

Private WireGuard® networks made easy

Overview

This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

Other Tailscale repos of note:

For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.

Using

We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.

Other clients

The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.

Building

We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.26. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)

go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}

If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:

./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled

If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.

Bugs

Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.

Contributing

PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.

We require Developer Certificate of Origin Signed-off-by lines in commits.

See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.

About Us

Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:

WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.