Administrator Guide

For the tagged packets, Queue is selected based on the incoming Packet Dot1p. When PFC frames for a specific priority is received from
the peer switch, the queue corresponding to that Dot1p is halted from scheduling on that port, thus honoring the PFC from the peer. If a
queue is congested due to packets with a specific Dot1p and PFC is enabled for that Dot1p, switch will transit out PFC frames for that
Dot1p. The packet Dot1p to Queue mapping for classification on the ingress must be same as the mapping of Dot1p to the Queue to be
halted on the egress used for PFC honoring. Dell Networking OS ensures that these mappings are identical. This section discusses the Dell
Networking OS configurations needed for above PFC generation and honoring mechanism to work for the untagged packets.
PRIORITY to PG mapping (PRIO2PG) is on the ingress for each port. By default, all priorities are mapped to PG7. A priority for which PFC
has to be generated is assigned to a PG other than PG7 (say PG6) and buffer watermark is set on PG6 so as to generate PFC.
In ingress, the buffers are accounted at per PG basis and would indicate the number of the packets that has ingress this port PG but still
queued up in egress pipeline. However, there is no direct mapping between the PG and Queue.
Packet is assigned an internal priority on the ingress pipeline based on the queue to which it is destined. This Internal-priority to Queue
mapping has been modified and enhanced as follows for the device:
PFC and ETS Configuration Examples
This section contains examples of how to configure and apply DCB policies on an interface.
Using PFC and ETS to Manage Data Center Traffic
The following shows examples of using PFC and ETS to manage your data center traffic.
In the following example:
• Incoming SAN traffic is configured for priority-based flow control.
• Outbound LAN, IPC, and SAN traffic is mapped into three ETS priority groups and configured for enhanced traffic selection
(bandwidth allocation and scheduling).
• One lossless queue is used.
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