These pesky NSS cores.

[Tom Brough]

On stock/Voxel firmware are the R7800 NSS cores working all the time as in some reports I see them say they are there to enable handling upto 1Gbps speeds even with QoS and traffic monitoring... But I've also read the NSS cores are deactivated if you switch on QoS or traffic monitoring.

Which is correct? Anyone tested the theory??

 

[Tom Brough]

No one knows then? Does any of your skills @kamoj show when the nss cores are being used?

 

[kamoj]

This is the best I have:
https://people.netfilter.org/pablo/netdev0.1/slides/IPQ806x-Hardware-acceleration_v2.pdf
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipq806x-nss-drivers/12613
http://www.bitswrt.com/IPQ8064.html

 

[Tom Brough]

I just really want to know if having QoS on disables it... But it's impossible to know if it's working or not, how do you ever know? Lol.