On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Jonathan Morton wrote:
We're usually seeing problems with the smaller-scale CPUs found in CPE SoCs, which are very much geared to take advantage of hardware accelerated packet forwarding. I think in some cases there might actually be insufficient internal I/O bandwidth to get 1Gbps out of the NIC, into the CPU, and back out to the NIC again, only through the dedicated forwarding path. That could manifest itself as a lot of kernel time spent waiting for the hardware, and can only really be solved by redesigning the hardware.
There are lots of SoCs where CPU routing results in ~100 megabit/s of throughput, whilst the HW offload engine is perfectly capable of full gig speeds. MT7621 being one that actually is supported in OpenWrt.
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