Users Guide
When a device sends a pause frame to another device, the time for which the sending of packets from the other device must be stopped is 
contained in the pause frame. The device that sent the pause frame empties the buer to be less than the threshold value and restarts the 
acceptance of data packets.
Dynamic ingress buering enables the sending of pause frames at dierent thresholds based on the number of ports that experience 
congestion at a time. This behavior impacts the total buer size used by a particular lossless priority on an interface. The pause and resume 
thresholds can also be congured dynamically. You can congure a buer size, pause threshold, ingress shared threshold weight, and 
resume threshold to control and manage the total amount of buers that are to be used in your network environment.
Buer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets
You can congure up to a maximum of 64 lossless (PFC) queues. By conguring 64 lossless queues, you can congure multiple priorities 
and assign a particular priority to each application that your network is used to process. For example, you can assign a higher priority for 
time-sensitive applications and a lower priority for other services, such as le transfers. You can congure the amount of buer space to be 
allocated for each priority and the pause or resume thresholds for the buer. This method of conguration enables you to eectively 
manage and administer the behavior of lossless queues.
Although the system contains 4 MB of space for shared buers, a minimum guaranteed buer is provided to all the internal and external 
ports in the system for both unicast and multicast trac. This minimum guaranteed buer reduces the total available shared buer to 3399 
KB. This shared buer can be used for lossy and lossless trac.
The default behavior causes up to a maximum of 3088 KB to be used for PFC-related trac. The remaining approximate space of 311 KB 
can be used by lossy trac. You can allocate all the remaining 311 KB to lossless PFC queues. If you allocate in such a way, the performance 
of lossy trac is reduced and degraded. Although you can allocate a maximum buer size, it is used only if a PFC priority is congured and 
applied on the interface.
The number of lossless queues supported on the system is dependent on the availability of total buers for PFC. The default conguration 
in the system guarantees a minimum of 45 KB (for 10G) per queue if all the 64 queues are congested. However, modifying the buer 
allocation per queue impacts this default behavior.
The following table lists the PFC buer space required for one lossless queue corresponding to the port speeds supported by the system:
Table 16. 
Buer Space Required
Interface Speed PFC Buer Space required for one Lossless Queue
10G 45 KB
25G 94 KB
40G 94 KB
50G 161 KB
100G 161 KB
This default behavior is impacted if you modify the total buer available for PFC or assign static buer congurations to the individual PFC 
queues.
Behavior of Tagged Packets
The below is example for enabling PFC for priority 2 for tagged packets. Priority (Packet Dot1p) 2 will be mapped to PG6 on PRIO2PG 
setting. All other Priorities for which PFC is not enabled are mapped to default PG – PG7.
Classication rules on ingress (Ingress FP CAM region) matches incoming packet-dot1p and assigns an internal priority (to select queue as 
per Table 1 and Table 2).
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