Reference Guide
PFC conguration notes
• PFC is supported for 802.1p priority trac (dot1p 0 to 7). FCoE trac traditionally uses dot1p priority 3 — iSCSI storage trac uses
dot1p priority 4.
• Congure PFC for ingress trac by using network-qos class and policy maps (see Quality of Service). The queues used for PFC-
enabled trac are treated as lossless queues. Congure the same network-qos policy map on all PFC-enabled ports. Congure required
bandwidth for lossless trac using ETS queuing (output) policies on egress interfaces.
• In a network-qos policy-class map, use commands to generate PFC pause frames for matching class-map priorities:
– Send pause frames for matching class-map trac during congestion (pause command).
– (Optional) Enter user-dened values for the reserved ingress buer-size of PFC class-map trac, and the thresholds used to send
XOFF and XON pause frames (pause [buffer-size kilobytes pause-threshold kilobytes resume-
threshold
kilobytes]command).
– Congure the matching dot1p values used to send pause frames (pfc-cos command).
– (Optional) Set the static and dynamic thresholds that determine the shared buers available for PFC class-map trac queues
(queue-limit thresh-mode command).
• By default, all ingress trac is handled by the lossy ingress buer. When you enable PFC, dot1p ingress trac competes for shared
buers in the lossless pool instead of the shared lossy pool. The number of lossless queues supported on an interface depends on the
amount of available free memory in the lossy pool.
• Use the priority-flow-control mode on command to enable PFC for FCoE and iSCSI trac (example, priority 3 and 4).
• Enable DCBX on interfaces to detect and auto-congure PFC/ETS parameters from peers.
• PFC and 802.3x link-level ow control (LLFC) are disabled by default on an interface. You cannot enable PFC and LLFC at the same
time. LLFC ensures lossy trac in best-eort transmission. Enable PFC to enable guarantee lossless FCoE and iSCSI trac. PFC
manages buer congestion by pausing specied ingress dot1p trac; LLFC pauses all data transmission on an interface. To enable
LLFC, enter the flowcontrol [receive | transmit] [on | off] command.
• SYSTEM-QOS mode applies a service policy globally on all interfaces:
– Create and apply a 1-to-1 802.1p-priority-to-trac-class mapping on an interface or all interfaces in INTERFACE or SYSTEM-QOS
mode
– Create and apply a 1-to-1 trac-class-to-queue mapping on an interface or all interfaces in INTERFACE or SYSTEM-QOS mode
The S5148F-ON platform has the following limitations:
• You cannot congure PFC priority 0 as a lossless priority.
• You cannot map multiple priorities to same queue.
• Whenever LLFC is enabled on an interface, Rx PFC frames are honored. Also, whenever PFC is enabled on an interface, Rx Pause
frames are honored. With respect to statistics, Rx Pause statistics in the hardware includes the Rx PFC frames too.
Congure dot1p priority to trac class mapping
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