BLADE OS™ Application Guide HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for c-Class BladeSystem Version 5.1 Advanced Functionality Software

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BLADE OS 5.1 Application Guide
BMD00113, September 2009 Chapter 8: Quality of Service 153
Queuing and Scheduling
The GbE2c can have 2 output Class of Service (COS) queues per port, into which each packet is
placed. Each packet’s 802.1p priority determines its COS queue, except when an ACL action sets
the COS queue of the packet.
Each COS queue uses Weighted Round Robin (WRR) scheduling, with user configurable weight
from 1 to 15. The weight of 0 (zero) indicates strict priority, which might starve the low priority
queues.
You can configure the following attributes for COS queues:
Map 802.1p priority value to a COS queue
Define the scheduling weight of each COS queue
Use the 802.1p menu (/cfg/qos/8021p) to configure COS queues.