I will have some energy and time, shortly.

That said, several great openwrt people are on this list, and may be able to weigh in.

I'm glad that the limit of about 130Mbit on the ethernet side for gigE could be mitigated with a better driver. (and that said, 130Mbit is "good enough" for most of the world)

On the other hand, making the switch that lays underneath this driver, work well, looks hard.

Does anybody here speak enough Taiwanese to get enough detail on the rtl8366s to see what it would take to enable fair queueing and port mirroring?

or have a relationship with realtek they could use to get this info?

The datasheet has insufficient detail, and yet the switch seems enormously capable, at least in theory. The kind of numbers under load I've seen thus far (ranging from .9ms to 170ms) suggest port starvation.

http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366s_8366sr_datasheet_vpre-1.4_20071022.pdf