OpenWrt One - celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 09:11:12 PST 2024


On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM Gregers Baur-Petersen <glp at openwrt.org> wrote:
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> On 18/01/2024 17.50, Dave Taht wrote:
> > tee-hee. For the record, I would prefer less (and less buggy) offloads
> > than offloads, and to work on scaling software better to multi-cores.

I had heard there was a mt76? mt79? feature where the completion
interrupt could be made to shape the pulls from the qdisc, essentially
doing hardware shaping. There is support for this in BQL for several
intel chips. True?

> >
> > I also would love to find a chip where fq_codel could be offloaded,
> > but with open source for the offload, since the nss drivers are
> > slightly broken...
> >
> > I also would like a pony.
> >
> Not sure if a pony is the extra addition/feature I need. I'm more of a
> dog person ;-)

OpenWrt One could use a logo...
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> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 11:40 AM Chuanhong Guo <gch981213 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:23 AM Fernando Frediani <fhfrediani at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, interesting. Is it enough to give it the necessary performance boost
> >>> when doing NAT ? Is it capable of doing it on the chip or does it do on
> >>> the CPU ? Reading about it seems to be a software thing although seems
> >>> there are hardware capable devices as well. How comparable is this to a
> >>> chip that has NAT offload capability ?
> >>
> >> MT7981 is such a chip with NAT offload capability, and the
> >> flow-offload driver mentioned in other threads is actually
> >> a driver for this hardware block.
> >> Since it's a cost-down MT7986 I would imagine this particular
> >> feature is the same between them:
> >>
> >> HW NAT
> >> − Etherent/WiFi
> >> − Wired speed
> >> − IPv4 routing, NAT, NAPT
> >> − IPv6 routing, DS-Lite, 6RD
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Chuanhong Guo
> >>
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