Administrator Guide

size Weightage of the priorities on the shared buffer size in the system. Enter a number
in the range of 0 to 9. The default shared threshold weight is 10.
Default The default size of the ingress buffer is 45 KB. The default buffer limit at which the port sends the pause
to peer and recommences the sending of packets to the peer is 10 KB. The default threshold weight of
the shared buffer space is 10.
Command Modes DCB-BUFFER-THRESHOLD mode
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.7(0.1) Introduced on the S3048-ON and S4048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S4810, S4820T, S6000, and MXL platforms.
Usage
Information
You must apply this buffer policy at the interface level for the attributes to be applicable in conjunction
with the DCB input policy.
For each QoS policy buffer, you can specify the shared buffer threshold limit, the ingress buffer size,
buffer limit for pausing the acceptance of packets, and the buffer offset limit for resuming the
acceptance of received packets. When PFC detects congestion on a queue for a specified priority, it
sends a pause frame for the 802.1p priority traffic to the transmitting device.
You can use set up both the administrative and peer-related PFC priorities. For example, you can
configure the intended buffer configuration for all 8 priorities. If you configure the number of lossless
queues as 4 and if the administrator-configured priorities configured within the DCB input policy is
applied, then the configuration for those priorities are pre-designed. However, if the peer-provided
priorities are applied, although a DCB input policy is present, the peer-provided priorities become
effective for buffer configuration. This method of configuration provides an easy and flexible technique to
accommodate both administratively-configured and peer-configured priorities.
Example
Dell(conf)# qos-policy-buffer test
Dell(conf-qos-policy-buffer)#queue 0 pause no-drop buffer-size 128000
pause-threshold 103360 resume-threshold 83520
Dell(conf-qos-policy-buffer)# queue 4 pause no-drop buffer-size 128000
pause-threshold 103360 resume-threshold 83520
dcb-policy buffer-threshold (Interface Configuration)
Assign the DCB policy to the DCB buffer threshold profile on interfaces. This setting takes precedence over the global buffer-
threshold setting.
C9000 Series
Syntax
dcb-policy buffer-threshold profile-name
Parameters
buffer-threshold Configure the profile name for the DCB buffer threshold
profile-name Enter the name of the profile, which can be a string of up to 32 characters in
length.
Default None
Command Modes INTERFACE mode
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
562 Data Center Bridging (DCB)