I’ve seen that the 3 mentioned hacks to improve network speed are present for any device but is there any risk enabling all 3 of them? I’ve been testing a few routers and AP with them settings but they seem to work fine so far. Is there any risks involved (Crashes, race condifions leading to vulnerabilities…) is enabling all 3? I know SqM doesn’t work when Flow Offloading is ON but other than that? Is there a silver bullet?
Depends on the device. (please add output of ubus call system board and a link to test result wired from https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat
irqbalance and steering are mutually exclusive - just 2 methods to run packet processing on all cores
SQM works partially with software flow offload (which runs on CPU cores as above)
Hardware offload uses hardware offload unit where supported, or slightly less CPU than previous where not.
Read here: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/perf_and_log/flow_offloading (pbr, bonding, sqm, roaming dont work with hw offload(even configured wo hardware unit), you must test with sw offload)
If there was a silver bullet be assured it would be already deployed universally.
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