Reference Guide

OID String OID Name Description
.1.3.6.1.4.1.6027.3.16.1.1.4 fpPacketBufferTable View the modular packet buffers
details per stack unit and the
mode of allocation.
.1.3.6.1.4.1.6027.3.16.1.1.5 fpStatsPerPortTable View the forwarding plane
statistics containing the packet
buffer usage per port per stack
unit.
.1.3.6.1.4.1.6027.3.16.1.1.6 fpStatsPerCOSTable View the forwarding plane
statistics containing the packet
buffer statistics per COS per port.
Buffer Tuning
Buffer tuning allows you to modify the way your switch allocates buffers from its available memory and
helps prevent packet drops during a temporary burst of traffic.
The S-Series application-specific integrated circuit (ASICs) implement the key functions of queuing,
feature lookups, and forwarding lookups in hardware.
Forwarding processor (FP) ASICs provide Ethernet MAC functions, queueing, and buffering, as well as
store feature and forwarding tables for hardware-based lookup and forwarding decisions. 1G and 10G
interfaces use different FPs.
The following table describes the type and number of ASICs per platform.
Table 82. ASICs by Platform
Hardware FP CSF
S50N, S50V 2 0
S25V, S25P, S25N 1 0
As shown in the following example, you can tune buffers at three locations.
1. CSF — Output queues going from the CSF.
2. FP Uplink — Output queues going from the FP to the CSF IDP links.
3. Front-End Link — Output queues going from the FP to the front-end PHY.
All ports support eight queues, four for data traffic and four for control traffic. All eight queues are
tunable.
Physical memory is organized into cells of 128 bytes. The cells are organized into two buffer pools — the
dedicated buffer and the dynamic buffer.
• Dedicated buffer — this pool is reserved memory that other interfaces cannot use on the same ASIC
or by other queues on the same interface. This buffer is always allocated, and no dynamic re-carving
takes place based on changes in interface status. Dedicated buffers introduce a trade-off. They
provide each interface with a guaranteed minimum buffer to prevent an overused and congested
interface from starving all other interfaces. However, this minimum guarantee means that the buffer
manager does not reallocate the buffer to an adjacent congested interface, which means that in some
cases, memory is under-used.
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S-Series Debugging and Diagnostics