Qualcommax NSS Build

AgustinLorenzo · 2023-12-28T18:54:14.930Z

I have a repository where I have unpacked the ax3600 firmware, I see that in this file (https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/xiaomi_dump_fw/blob/master/lib/wifi/qcawificfg80211.sh) they configure the pbuf variables, if you want to take a look.

Regards, Agustin

AgustinLorenzo · 2023-12-28T19:11:56.742Z

Hi @markuznw

Checking the config.buildinfo of @dimfish it seems I did not select the limit option for 512MB of RAM which is necessary for ax3600.

In the version that I am compiling I do have it selected, it must be public so you can test it

Link: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/actions/runs/7350408629/job/20012009974

ETA: 20-30 min

Regards, Agustín

PlanK · 2023-12-28T21:08:02.204Z

Hey there, a few posts back you asked for people to request which router models to create firmware images for. Would you be willing to add the Netgear RAX120v2 to you release builds? I would love to test the firmware for this router that has the NSS offloading for wifi. Thanks!

Edit: this was supposed to be in reply to AgustinLorenzo

AgustinLorenzo · 2023-12-28T21:28:52.220Z

Hi @PlanK

I understand that the device is already supported by OpenWRT?

Regards, Agustín

PlanK · 2023-12-28T22:47:01.788Z

yes it is. Infact, I believe in your previous releases on your github page, you used to create builds for this model. I was just hoping you could add it pack please. The last time it was built was here:

GitHub

Release Updated prebuilt images 2023-09-25-2008 · AgustinLorenzo/openwrt

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/commits/ipq807x-2023-09-25-2008

qosmio · 2023-12-28T23:14:14.303Z

Thanks for the link. Looks like that script just embeds the same logic from qsdk's wlan-open "/etc/init.d/qca-nss-pbuf". That's the script I modified for our nss test builds. I then used the boards referenced in "/etc/init.d/smp_affinity" since the "ap-hk*" stuff wouldn't apply (as we use different values in dts).

I did my best to map our boards to the one in qsdk's script, but it's not perfect.

I'm actually curious to know, if anyone is able to provide (stock firmware) for the following on a 1GB or 512MB board.

sysctl -a 2>&1|grep nss

qosmio · 2023-12-28T23:39:01.046Z

rmandrad:

dynalink,dl-wrx36

Sorry, I just look at this again. Looks like it's better updated to match our boards. I'll add in the missing ones.

@SpectreDev, I see your PR hasn't been merged yet: ipq807x: add support for Linksys MX4200 V1 and V2, but I'll them into that script too.

AgustinLorenzo · 2023-12-28T23:41:59.795Z

Hi boys,

At the moment the WiFI with NSS in AX3600 is unstable.

Mobile phones can connect successfully, however my laptop (Intel AX210 cannot connect)

@qosmio this is my config: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/blob/main/.full_config

This is my config:

config wifi-device 'radio1'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi'
	option channel '36'
	option band '5g'
	option htmode 'HE160'
	option disabled '0'
	option country 'US'
	option cell_density '0'
	option txpower '30'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
	option device 'radio1'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid '5G'
	option encryption 'psk2'
	option key 'KEY'
	option skip_inactivity_poll '1'

config wifi-device 'radio2'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi+1'
	option channel 'auto'
	option band '2g'
	option htmode 'HE40'
	option disabled '0'
	option country 'US'
	option cell_density '0'
	option noscan '1'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio2'
	option device 'radio2'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid '2G'
	option encryption 'psk2'
	option key 'KEY'
	option macfilter 'deny'
	list maclist 'some_mac'
	option skip_inactivity_poll '1'

Error:

Fri Dec 29 00:20:05 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:05 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:08 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:08 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:12 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:12 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:15 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:15 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:18 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:18 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:21 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:21 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Dec 29 00:20:24 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Dec 29 00:20:24 2023 daemon.info hostapd: phy1-ap0: STA 38:87:d5:ba:62:38 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)

Regards, Agustin

SpectreDev · 2023-12-29T00:38:29.132Z

Yeah waiting for it to merge, it's all ready to be merged hopefully gets merged at some point

dimfish · 2023-12-29T14:37:29.320Z

AgustinLorenzo:

select the limit option for 512MB

Yeah, I've rebuilt with 512M

wthubhub · 2023-12-29T15:36:31.495Z

just update using 20231229 firmware, now better than before version

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sppmaster · 2023-12-29T18:00:29.451Z

Do you have static leases rules set for your clients?
For most of my regular devices I've set static leases (based on their MACs). Most of my WiFi clients that have static leases (except for two Samsung Smart Phones) authorize to the WLAN but cannot get IPs from DHCP after that. Hence the connection to Internet is not successful. Then I change their settings so they connect without static leases rules and all devices successfully get IPs and establish a connection.
I saw that you committed this to your repo.
I've decided to try this changed smp_affinity script.
For now I have 100-150 MB more available memory (260-300 MB free most of the time) and seems that memory recovers faster than before. Let's see how it goes with it. It's good to have some fun here.

M10 · 2023-12-29T18:28:20.635Z

Any nice image to Play with wrx36? Stable enough to have fun?

markuznw · 2023-12-29T19:37:25.202Z

Still not usable on ax3600. Leaks a bit less than the previous one but still every 20-25 mins oom crash.

sppmaster · 2023-12-30T01:39:40.070Z

qosmio:

I'm actually curious to know, if anyone is able to provide (stock firmware) for the following on a 1GB or 512MB board.

sysctl -a 2>&1|grep nss

Here it is from stock QNAP firmware

admin@192.168.1.1's password:
$ sysctl -a 2>&1|grep nss
dev.nss.c2c_tx.test_code = -1
dev.nss.clock.auto_scale = 0
dev.nss.general.coredump = 0
dev.nss.general.jumbo_mru = 0
dev.nss.general.logbuf = 0
dev.nss.general.paged_mode = 0
dev.nss.general.redirect = 1
dev.nss.ipv4cfg.ipv4_accel_mode = 1
dev.nss.ipv4cfg.ipv4_dscp_map = priority: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0
dev.nss.ipv4cfg.ipv4_dscp_map = action:   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0
dev.nss.ipv6cfg.ipv6_accel_mode = 1
dev.nss.ipv6cfg.ipv6_dscp_map = priority: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0
dev.nss.ipv6cfg.ipv6_dscp_map = action:   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                                             0 0 0 0 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.extra_pbuf_core0 = 9003008
dev.nss.n2hcfg.extra_pbuf_core1 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.host_bp_enable0 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.host_bp_enable1 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.mitigation_core0 = 1
dev.nss.n2hcfg.mitigation_core1 = 1
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_empty_paged_pool_buf_core0 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_empty_paged_pool_buf_core1 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_empty_pool_buf_core0 = 8704
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_empty_pool_buf_core1 = 2048
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_high_water_core0 = 67392
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_high_water_core1 = 2048
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_low_water_core0 = 4352
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_low_water_core1 = 1024
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_paged_high_water_core0 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_paged_high_water_core1 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_paged_low_water_core0 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_paged_low_water_core1 = 0
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_queue_limit_core0 = 256
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_queue_limit_core1 = 256
dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_wifi_pool_buf = 40960
dev.nss.pppoe.br_accel_mode = 1
dev.nss.project.wt_stats = 0
dev.nss.rps.enable = 1
dev.nss.rps.hash_bitmap = 15
dev.nss.rps.pri_map = Cores: -1 -1 -1 -1
dev.nss.skb_reuse.max_size = 4096
dev.nss.stats.non_zero_stats = 0
nss.bridge_mgr.add_wanif =
nss.bridge_mgr.del_wanif =
nss.ppe_vp.disable = 0
nss.ppe_vp.enable = 0
nss.vlan_client.ctpid = 33024
nss.vlan_client.stpid = 33024

wthubhub · 2023-12-30T04:12:02.804Z

after 12hr

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AgustinLorenzo · 2023-12-30T09:29:25.562Z

Hi boys,

This version does not include NSS offload for WiFi

I am redo the repos over the latest commit from OpenWRT.

Changelog (include upstream of OpenWRT):

Updated kernel and NSS code to 6.1.69
Update the stack of NSS to 12.4
Updated the fimware of IoT antenna (ath10k-ct) to kernel 6.4
Improved the memory usage: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/commit/e4230bf0a5996bc6e1695f9c429bbff8357e1acb
Added to the build: Netgear RAX120v2

Notes:

The build is compiled with GCC 13.2
The TCP congestion protocol by default is BBR
By default, the radio0 (IoT) is off (you can enable in LUCI) and the radio 1 y 2 is on.
The default country code for the wireless is US for avoid issues with the 160 MHZ because not having a specified country code
I pushed to my Github all workaround used in this version: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/issues/5 (english) and https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/issues/6 (spanish)
Guide for update to kernel 6.1 without losing configuration https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/issues/9 (english) and https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/issues/8 (spanish)

Sources:

https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt
https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/nss-packages

BUILDED: https://github.com/AgustinLorenzo/openwrt/releases/tag/ipq807x-2023-12-29-1427

NOTE: Now I am only compiling for the AX3600, AX6 and AX9000 and Dynalink DL-WRX36 and Buffalo WXR-5950AX12 and QNAP QHora-301W devices and Netgear RAX120v2, if anyone has used my versions with other devices, tell me and I will add them again.

Regards, Agustin

sppmaster · 2023-12-30T10:10:09.005Z

Try the above script.
Just change the file smp_affinity in /etc/init.d/ with this changed version using WinSCP and reboot.
No need to recompile or do anything else.

wthubhub · 2023-12-30T12:32:34.608Z

after 45m with new script. still >90%

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zek-cmd · 2023-12-30T12:40:17.523Z

tried to apply the script, monitoring memory usage.

update: memory frees when heavily using wifi (speedtest). when idle, it eats free memory.