Could you try to run top or htop and look at the CPU load? I could imagine that 
the fixes dnsmasq might have some CPU spikes that simply leave not enough 
cycles for the traffic shaper?

Best Regards
        Sebastian

> On Jan 22, 2021, at 22:25, Jonathan Foulkes <j...@jonathanfoulkes.com> wrote:
> 
> I figure there should be no inter-dependencies there, but the side-effect of 
> the new dnsmasq is pretty serious.
> 
> I did not install .6, I only performed an opkg update of the dnamasq package 
> itself. So kernal is the same in my case.
> 
> But others running a full .6 build report similar QoS issues.
> 
> I regressed back to .4 and all is good on the QoS front, waiting until a new 
> drop of dnsmasq before trying again.
> 
> - Jonathan
> 
>> On Jan 22, 2021, at 4:15 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Jonathan Foulkes <j...@jonathanfoulkes.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I installed the updated package on a 19.07.4 box running cake, and QoS 
>>> performance went down the tubes.
>>> Last night it locked up completely while attempting to stream.
>>> 
>>> See the PingPlots others have posted to this forum thread, mine look 
>>> similar, went from constant sub 50ms to very spiky, then some loss, loss 
>>> increasing, and if high traffic, lock-up.
>>> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/security-advisory-2021-01-19-1-dnsmasq-multiple-vulnerabilities/85903/39
>>> 
>>> load is low, sirq is low, so box does not seem stressed.
>>> 
>>> Any reason Cake would be sensitive to a dnsmasq bug?
>> 
>> No, not really. I mean, dnsmasq could be sending some traffic that
>> interferes with stuff? Or it could be a kernel regression - the release
>> did bump the kernel version as well...
>> 
>> -Toke
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