Shaping, Sharing (Bandwidth), Priority Queuing, Queue-Limiting And Dbl - Cisco Catalyst 4500 series Administration Manual

Chapter 42 Configuring Quality of Service
For a conditional marking using policer, provided the policer is a packet rate policer, you cannot
determine the number packets marked because the policer only provides byte statistics for different
policing results.

Shaping, Sharing (Bandwidth), Priority Queuing, Queue-limiting and DBL

The Catalyst 4500 Series Switch supports the Classification-based (class-based) mode for transmit
queue selection. In this mode, the transmit queue selection is based on the Output QoS classification
lookup.
Only output (egress) queuing is supported.
Note
The supervisor engine supports 8 transmit queues per port. Once the forwarding decision has been made
to forward a packet out a port, the output QoS classification determines the transmit queue into which
the packet needs to be enqueued.
By default, without any service policies associated with a port, there are two queues (a control packet
queue and a default queue) with no guarantee as to the bandwidth or kind of prioritization. The only
exception is that system generated control packets are enqueued into control packet queue so that control
traffic receives some minimum link bandwidth.
Queues are assigned when an output policy attached to a port with one or more queuing related actions
for one or more classes of traffic. Because there are only eight queues per port, there can be at most eight
classes of traffic (including the reserved class, class-default) with queuing action(s). Classes of traffic
that do not have any queuing action are referred to as non-queuing classes. Non-queuing class traffic
ends up using the queue corresponding to class class-default.
When a queuing policy (a policy with queuing action) is attached, the control packet queue is deleted
and the control packets are enqueued into respective queue per their classification. An egress QoS class
must be configured to match IP Precedence 6 and 7 traffic, and a bandwidth guarantee must be
configured.
Dynamic resizing of queues (queue limit class-map action) is supported through the use of the
queue-limit command. Based on the chassis and line card type, all eight queues on a port are configured
with equal queue size.
Shaping
Shaping enables you to delay out-of-profile packets in queues so that they conform to a specified profile.
Shaping is distinct from policing. Policing drops packets that exceed a configured threshold, whereas
shaping buffers packets so that traffic remains within a given threshold. Shaping offers greater
smoothness in handling traffic than policing. You enable average-rate traffic shaping on a traffic class
with the policy-map class configuration command.
The supervisor engine supports a range of 32kbps to 10 gbps for shaping, with a precision of
approximately +/- 0.75 per cent.
When a queuing class is configured without any explicit shape configuration, the queue shape is set to
the link rate.
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