Linksys EA7300 getting slower after one day

Indicates that the device is under heavy interrupt load.

Caused by IRQs coming in faster than the system can handle them.

They are queued for later processing by ksoftirqd.

Run...

cat /proc/interrupts

... and post the results.

Your device target is ramips/mt7621, which is a DSA device.

Even though the EA7300 has 2 CPUs, only one is being used for DSA devices in 21.02.

I suspect the best option is to roll back to 19.07.n, until the issue is fixed.

During a speedtest, this command gives :

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
  8:   28589101   28589132   28589122   28589117  MIPS GIC Local   1  timer
  9:    1157445          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  63  IPI call
 10:          0      41179          0          0  MIPS GIC  64  IPI call
 11:          0          0     988399          0  MIPS GIC  65  IPI call
 12:          0          0          0      41810  MIPS GIC  66  IPI call
 13:     153062          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  67  IPI resched
 14:          0     633781          0          0  MIPS GIC  68  IPI resched
 15:          0          0     618748          0  MIPS GIC  69  IPI resched
 16:          0          0          0     564527  MIPS GIC  70  IPI resched
 17:          0          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  19  1e000600.gpio-bank0, 1e000600.gpio-bank1, 1e000600.gpio-bank2
 19:         12          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  33  ttyS0
 20:          0          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  29  xhci-hcd:usb1
 21:   33780702          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  10  1e100000.ethernet
 23:         23          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  11  mt7603e
 24:         18          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  31  mt7615e
 26:          0          0          0          0  1e000600.gpio  17  keys
 27:          0          0          0          0  1e000600.gpio  12  keys
ERR:          1

And after fresh reboot

           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
  8:      10998      11028      11038      11011  MIPS GIC Local   1  timer
  9:      19175          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  63  IPI call
 10:          0       6531          0          0  MIPS GIC  64  IPI call
 11:          0          0      18069          0  MIPS GIC  65  IPI call
 12:          0          0          0       6388  MIPS GIC  66  IPI call
 13:       3946          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  67  IPI resched
 14:          0       3963          0          0  MIPS GIC  68  IPI resched
 15:          0          0       4043          0  MIPS GIC  69  IPI resched
 16:          0          0          0       4662  MIPS GIC  70  IPI resched
 17:          0          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  19  1e000600.gpio-bank0, 1e000600.gpio-bank1, 1e000600.gpio-bank2
 19:         12          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  33  ttyS0
 20:          0          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  29  xhci-hcd:usb1
 21:      10788          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  10  1e100000.ethernet
 23:         23          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  11  mt7603e
 24:         18          0          0          0  MIPS GIC  31  mt7615e
 26:          0          0          0          0  1e000600.gpio  17  keys
 27:          0          0          0          0  1e000600.gpio  12  keys
ERR:          1

Since your router is one of those making use of MediaTek MT7621A - MT7615N combination,
Provided you're comfortable installing LuCi manually,
You could give Development Snapshot builds a try and see if that improves the situation.

Due to bug(s),
I stopped testing/using the stable releases on DIR-878 and DIR-882 (MediaTek MT7621A - MT7615N) routers.

I can do that. But when I bought the router, I installed by mistake a dev snapshot instead of the stable one and configured LUCI myself. But I don't remember which one, but I think that there were a couple other packages that were not comptatible.

I may take a look at this option after Easter because I'll be out of the country a couple a days and I dont want to make the situation worse before leaving.

For now I'll schedule a reboot every night as a temporary patch..

Hi all,

Just a little follow up on this one.. I may have found the (or one of the) guilty package.

Few weeks ago, I updated my router to the latest version, and the issue diseapered.

I did not reinstall any of my previous packages(except VPN) to keep the setup clean.

After a few weeks running without issue, last week I wanted to limit bandwidth for a specific device, so after reading, I installed NFT-QOS (which was installed before but unused).

  1. I was unabled to get it to work properly.. So I unchecked the "active" box in Lucy and I left it like that.

  2. Two days later, my Internet speed was veeeeery slow, on all devices. As I knew that the only difference was the NFT-QOS "inactive" package, I decided to completely remove it.

  3. I'm now on the sixth day without reboot with no issue at all.

So lesson learned, I'll go one package at a time and wait a couple of days to see if there are issues!

Thanks all for help !

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