@ACwifidude I'm noticing lower temps on the new STABLE 21.02 build... about 4*C across the board on the NBG6817. Not sure what other back-end changes were made - but it's a welcome drop since the Zyxel runs pretty warm compared to the R7800 due to its significantly smaller heatsink. As always - thank you for everything you do!
@th3voic3 @illumiN8i Can't compare to the MASTER build, but Stubby is good-to-go on the STABLE build for me.
I apologize for the noob question, but I couldn't find the answer myself in this long thread. Does this pertain to making a custom build of this firmware, or is there something specific the end user has to import into the router after flashing this to implement NSS SQM. Thanks all.
its not required, but if you needed it, instruction on the 2nd post 4th point. Applicable for any nss build shared here.
Looks unrelated. Probably a temporary hiccup from the source servers.
reboot on c2600, 5.10 kernel
Not sure if this counts as a bug but I made my r7800 very unhappy with a startup config like this (see bolded)
tc qdisc add dev nssifb root handle 1: nsstbl rate 220000 burst 1Mb
tc qdisc add dev nssifb parent 1: handle 10: nssfq_codel limit 10240 flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5ms interval 100ms set_default
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: nsstbl rate 114000 burst 1Mb
tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1: handle 10: nssfq_codel limit 10240 flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5ms interval 100ms set_default
exit 0
Made web browsing almost unusable. I'm guessing it was setting to 220,000 Mbit and going haywire. It wasn't clear from the first few posts that I had to use Mbit and not bits.
I also had some issues reaching line speed (250/15) with this build, but it could be a problem on my end.
I've yet to get 5.10 to work with my NBG6817 without random reboots within an hour or so. Logs don't give me anything unfortunately and I'm not connected to serial ports (yet) to be able to monitor... hopefully soon. Very curious what's causing my crashes considering hardware essentially identical to the R7800.
It should be 220Mbit (not 220000) and 114Mbit (not 114000). See if that helps. NSS fq codel will average “high B” / “low A” on most bufferbloat measures.
Most ipq806x devices can do cake at nearly that speed (normal openwrt, non-NSS build). Cake will give better latency if you are looking for peak performance at that ISP speed. I’d turn cake down to 160Mbit. Defer towards lower (maybe 150 or 140) - should find a sweet spot of consistent A+ bufferbloat for your connection. NSS hardware offloading is better suited to for 500+mbps isp connections to get max performance.
@SiXX - interesting. Let me know if you figure out any specifics or get any crash logs. Does the 21.02 build work well?
@ACwifidude Yep - 21.02 is perfect. As I've said in previous posts - it's 100% stable (set & forget) for me. I just use the build you compile... only thing I add in is Stubby. I don't use DDNS, Adblock, VPN, etc... I'm really a vanilla user with the exception of Stubby. That's what makes me so curious as to why 5.10 Master is so challenging for the Zyxel. Probably something small / silly... once I hopefully get around to getting Serial access - that should help a lot.
@illumiN8i @th3voic3 I just swapped over to Master 5.10 on an R7800 I manage - and can confirm stubby is NOT available in opkg. Weird.
For anyone interested: stubby is back in Master
Yep I've installed stubby via opkg and I've upgraded the last NSS master to the last kernel (5.10.91) and everything is working
@ACwifidude I loaded 5.10 again on the Zyxel today... just to tinker some more. Question - does Kernel 5.10 do something different to balance the load across the two primary cores -vs- 5.4? When I run the command "cat /proc/interrupts/" - it appears to have a lot more NSS activity on CPU1 versus CPU0 when compared to 5.4 Kernel. Luci Statistics - Processor page shows a lot more balance across the two as well. Global Packet Steering and irqbalance have been enabled on both builds - so no difference there. When I run a wireless speedtest - on 5.4 only CPU0 would load up and show the IRQ spike in luci stats... whereas in 5.10 both will load up. On 5.4 with little-to-no load, I'd see CPU0 hovering between 6-10% and CPU1 around 2-3% constant... whereas on 5.10 I see both hovering in the 3-6% range rather equally.
Here's a log from 5.10. Lines 39 and 41 are the curious ones to me as they only appear to be operating on CPU1 after initial boot.
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
24: 95342 59931 GIC-0 18 Edge gp_timer
26: 6332 7293 GIC-0 51 Edge qcom_rpm_ack
27: 0 0 GIC-0 53 Edge qcom_rpm_err
28: 0 0 GIC-0 54 Edge qcom_rpm_wakeup
38: 0 0 GIC-0 202 Level adm_dma
39: 126989 1174506 GIC-0 245 Level nss
40: 98777 28 GIC-0 264 Level nss_queue1
41: 126140 960701 GIC-0 246 Level nss
42: 0 0 GIC-0 265 Level nss_queue1
43: 8917 154 GIC-0 130 Level bam_dma
44: 0 0 GIC-0 128 Level bam_dma
45: 27618 462 GIC-0 136 Level mmci-pl18x (cmd)
46: 0 0 GIC-0 210 Edge 900000.clock-controller:thermal-sensor@900000
48: 0 0 PCI-MSI 0 Edge aerdrv
50: 0 0 PCI-MSI 134217728 Edge aerdrv
51: 10 0 GIC-0 184 Level msm_serial0
52: 3154405 0 GIC-0 187 Level 1a280000.spi
53: 1 0 msmgpio 53 Edge keys
54: 0 0 msmgpio 54 Edge keys
55: 0 0 msmgpio 65 Edge keys
56: 0 0 GIC-0 142 Level xhci-hcd:usb1
57: 0 0 GIC-0 237 Level xhci-hcd:usb3
58: 314405 0 PCI-MSI 524288 Edge ath10k_pci
59: 127488 0 PCI-MSI 134742016 Edge ath10k_pci
IPI0: 0 0 CPU wakeup interrupts
IPI1: 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI2: 2802 2832 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI3: 59725 198283 Function call interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI5: 48412 27634 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 completion interrupts
Err: 0
Still couldn't pin down the random reboots on 5.10 w/ the Zyxel. Kept doing it today... first one about an hour after initial setup... second about the same... but then it a third after approx 15min... fourth about 35min later. Family got home, so I reverted back to NSS Stable 21.02... otherwise I'd have an unhappy family at me. haha.
For comparison - here's a snap of the interrupts on 5.4. Again - this is with IRQBalance and Packet Steering enabled. Big difference between 5.10 and 5.4.
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
16: 31304 23804 GIC-0 18 Edge gp_timer
18: 3637 0 GIC-0 51 Edge qcom_rpm_ack
19: 0 0 GIC-0 53 Edge qcom_rpm_err
20: 0 0 GIC-0 54 Edge qcom_rpm_wakeup
26: 0 0 GIC-0 210 Edge tsens_interrupt
29: 0 0 GIC-0 202 Level adm_dma
32: 487356 0 GIC-0 245 Level nss
33: 0 57740 GIC-0 264 Level nss_queue1
34: 396357 0 GIC-0 246 Level nss
35: 0 0 GIC-0 265 Level nss_queue1
36: 8354 0 GIC-0 130 Level bam_dma
37: 0 0 GIC-0 128 Level bam_dma
38: 28237 0 GIC-0 136 Level mmci-pl18x (cmd)
40: 0 0 PCI-MSI 0 Edge aerdrv
42: 0 0 PCI-MSI 134217728 Edge aerdrv
43: 12 0 GIC-0 184 Level msm_serial0
44: 259784 0 GIC-0 187 Level 1a280000.spi
45: 1 0 msmgpio 53 Edge keys
46: 2 0 msmgpio 54 Edge keys
47: 2 0 msmgpio 65 Edge keys
48: 0 0 GIC-0 142 Level xhci-hcd:usb1
49: 0 0 GIC-0 237 Level xhci-hcd:usb3
50: 144466 0 PCI-MSI 524288 Edge ath10k_pci
51: 47993 0 PCI-MSI 134742016 Edge ath10k_pci
IPI0: 0 0 CPU wakeup interrupts
IPI1: 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI2: 11257 62387 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI3: 2288 5063 Function call interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI5: 12354 12044 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 completion interrupts
Err: 0
tp link c2600 is rebooting too, 4-5x per day
Just for comparison... here's an R7800 I support as well on your NSS Master 5.10. Interrupts look quite a bit different from the Zyxel's I posted earlier. Very strange. Luci Stats - Processor looks more normal to me on the R7800 too, with more load on CPU0 -vs- CPU1. Wondering if something within the Zyxel is causing affinities to be bugged. Would definitely explain the random reboots. @ACwifidude - any thoughts?
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
24: 59405 43753 GIC-0 18 Edge gp_timer
26: 9912 0 GIC-0 51 Edge qcom_rpm_ack
27: 0 0 GIC-0 53 Edge qcom_rpm_err
28: 0 0 GIC-0 54 Edge qcom_rpm_wakeup
34: 0 0 GIC-0 241 Level ahci[29000000.sata]
39: 782505 78232 GIC-0 202 Level adm_dma
40: 557765 0 GIC-0 245 Level nss
41: 0 27582 GIC-0 264 Level nss_queue1
42: 478622 0 GIC-0 246 Level nss
43: 0 0 GIC-0 265 Level nss_queue1
44: 0 0 GIC-0 130 Level bam_dma
45: 0 0 GIC-0 128 Level bam_dma
46: 0 0 GIC-0 210 Edge 900000.clock-controller:thermal-sensor@900000
48: 0 0 PCI-MSI 0 Edge aerdrv
50: 0 0 PCI-MSI 134217728 Edge aerdrv
51: 15 0 GIC-0 184 Level msm_serial0
52: 0 0 msmgpio 6 Edge keys
53: 0 0 msmgpio 54 Edge keys
54: 0 0 msmgpio 65 Edge keys
55: 0 0 GIC-0 142 Level xhci-hcd:usb1
56: 0 0 GIC-0 237 Level xhci-hcd:usb3
57: 127396 0 PCI-MSI 524288 Edge ath10k_pci
58: 54953 0 PCI-MSI 134742016 Edge ath10k_pci
IPI0: 0 0 CPU wakeup interrupts
IPI1: 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI2: 3790 4314 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI3: 33793 61411 Function call interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI5: 17051 10593 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 completion interrupts
Err: 0
sorry guys, i feel a little bit confused 
all these stability issues are for master on 5.10 "in general" or only for some targets?
is R7800 master stable?
Thanks
Interesting. I’ll look in to it more this weekend. R7800 and zyxel have the exact same .dts settings so there must be something else.
@pattagghiu r7800 is working well with 5.10. The rest seem to be having issues. 21.02 is working well across the board.
@ACwifidude If there's anything I can do to assist you - let me know. I may not have the same level as ability as you and others, but I can certainly follow instructions really well! 
@pattagghiu NSS 21.02 is rock solid stable on all my devices. NSS Master 5.10 is stable on the R7800 only... struggling (work in progress) on my Zyxel.
ok, i'll try to build a new master 5.10, since i have some problems with 5GHz wifi with my NSS 21.02..
Thanks