Dell PowerSwitch S4128F-ON OS10 Enterprise Edition User Guide Release 10.4.3.0 - Page 1085

PFC configuration notes • PFC is supported for 802.1p, dot1p priority traffic, from 0 to 7. FCoE traffic traditionally uses dot1p priority 3 - iSCSI storage traffic uses dot1p priority 4. • Configure PFC for ingress traffic by using network-qos class and policy maps, see Quality of Service. PFC-enabled traffic queues are treated as lossless queues. Configure the same network-qos policy map on all PFC-enabled ports. Configure required bandwidth for lossless traffic 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 traffic during congestion using the pause command. - (Optional) Enter user-defined values for the reserved ingress buffer-size of PFC class-map traffic, and the thresholds used to send XOFF and XON pause frames using the pause [buffer-size kilobytes pause-threshold kilobytes resumethreshold kilobytes]command. - Configure the matching dot1p values used to send pause frames using the pfc-cos command. - (Optional) Set the static and dynamic thresholds that determine the shared buffers available for PFC class-map traffic queues using the queue-limit thresh-mode command. • By default, all ingress traffic is handled by the lossy ingress buffer. When you enable PFC, dot1p ingress traffic competes for shared buffers 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 traffic; for example, priority 3 and 4. • Enable DCBX on interfaces to detect and auto-configure PFC/ETS parameters from peers. • PFC and 802.3x LLFC are disabled by default on an interface. You cannot enable PFC and LLFC at the same time. LLFC ensures lossy traffic in best-effort transmission. Enable PFC to enable guarantee lossless FCoE and iSCSI traffic. PFC manages buffer congestion by pausing specified ingress dot1p traffic; LLFC pauses all data transmission on an interface. To enable LLFC, use 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-traffic-class mapping on an interface or all interfaces in INTERFACE or SYSTEM-QOS mode - Create and apply a 1-to-1 traffic-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 configure PFC priority 0 as a lossless priority. • You cannot map multiple priorities to the same queue. • Whenever you enable LLFC on an interface, Rx PFC frames are honored. Also, whenever you enable PFC on an interface, Rx Pause frames are honored. Rx Pause statistics in the hardware also includes the Rx PFC frames. Configure dot1p priority to traffic class mapping Converged data center services 1085