Users Guide

1560 Class-of-Service
that the system can respond to bursts in traffic. Setting the minimum
bandwidth percentages such that they sum to 100% effectively sets the
scheduler such that sharing of bandwidth is disabled, and all queues,
including strict priority queues, are serviced according to their minimum
bandwidth configuration during congestion.
Which Queue Management Methods Are Supported?
The switch supports the following methods, configurable per-interface-
queue, for determining which packets are dropped when the queue is full:
• Taildrop—Any packet forwarded to a full queue is dropped regardless of its
priority.
• Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED)—Drops packets queued for
transmission on an interface selectively based their drop precedence level.
For each of four drop precedence levels on each WRED-enabled interface
queue, the following parameters can be configured:
– Minimum Threshold: A percentage of the interface queue size below
which no packets of the selected drop precedence level are dropped.
– Maximum Threshold: A percentage of the interface queue size above
which all packets of the selected drop precedence level are dropped.
– Drop Probability: When the queue depth is between the minimum
and maximum thresholds, this value provides a scaling factor for
increasing the number of packets of the selected drop precedence level
that are dropped as the queue depth increases. The drop probability
supports configuration in the range of 0 to 10%, and the discrete
values 25%, 50%, and 75%. Values not listed are truncated to the next
lower value in hardware.
The minimum and maximum WRED thresholds should be calculated to
give a reasonable amount of buffering to TCP flows given the switch buffer
capacity. WRED thresholds are applied individually to each physical
interface. For the Dell EMC Networking N1500, N2000, N2100-ON,
N2200-ON, N3000-ON, N3100-ON, and N3200-ON Series switches, a
threshold of 100% corresponds to a buffer occupancy of 295428 bytes
queued for transmission on an interface.