Is your internet connection using PPPoE by any chance? I didn't notice a big difference either with SW flowoffload on my PPPoE connection. HW flowoffload did help immensely because the PPPoE encapsulation/decapsulation could also be offloaded.
I made the test with two PCs, so it's static IP/DHCP
my patch fix this:
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I am using the latest trunk version and I noticed if either the software offload, or the software + hw offload is on, my pptp vpn connections are not able to establish.
I am using the nf_nathelper_extra module and auto module loading. Is this and expected limitation?
Otherwise the HW offload works very nicely (mt7621): 900/200Mbits with below 5% utilization via PPPoE (IPv4) in both directions.
Flow offload not work with MWAN3 on Octeon soc.
has anyone seen this? gwlim looks like he was able to get the qca-sdk module included which allows you to set hardware nat.
Will be pointless once it's on kernel 4.14.
Yeah but it’s still on 4.9 isn’t it?
Take a look into my ath79 builds if you are interested in 4.14 builds for the ath79/ar71xx Qualcom/Atheros devices.
Currently there is only a smal subset of the old ar71xx devices supported, but due to ar71xx will be left on 4.9 and 4.14 does support flow offloading by default, the number of ported devices increases...
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ath79 support recently got merged for the c7v2.
A image for C7c2 is included since yesterday...
FWIW, I'm using my own image because we were doing them at the same time.
I'm on a c7v2 and am noticing some strange interactions between flow offload and mwan3.
Anyone else multi-homed and playing with this yet?
Sadly offloading without hardware support seems to make mwan3 work slow or strange, is this your problem? I have this on ath79, with mediatek switch that can do hardware nat, all seems to work perfectly. Shortcut fe worked also
Will it though? Even with flow offload you can't quite route 1Gbps lan to wan on ipq806x, whereas the stock firmware can.
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The @gwlim work was on ar71xx, not ipq806x. ar71xx is not as crippled as ipq806x. I also have some patches in my tree that speed up the Ethernet driver there.
Flow offload gets the v2 to around 900mbps I believe.
On WDR3600 i reach ~930MBit/s and this device has only one cpu port connected to the switch and not as much cpu power as the C7v2...
iperf nat performance with flow offloading enabled on wdr3600 (ath79)
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-30.0 sec 3.24 GBytes 929 Mbits/sec
Stock fw will do a offload to the switch and openwrt does all connection handling on cpu (except hw flow offloading on MT7621)
I stand corrected 
My patches may allow reaching 930.
that's my point HW flow offload, if it can be enabled cleanly for ipq806x would be a good goal.
Now if Qualcomm actually did something useful and didn't stick to Kernel 3.x for their QSDK that might be a possibility without a lot of reverse engineering.
Is @gwlim planning on trying to bang out the C7v2 hardware flow offload now that there is a well running 4.14 kernel for it?