Dell Z9000 Configuration Manual page 908

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 —
dedicated buffer and dynamic buffer.
• Dedicated buffer — is reserved memory that cannot be used by other interfaces 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 the buffer
manager does not reallocate the buffer to an adjacent congested interface, which means that in some
cases, memory is underused.
• Dynamic buffer — is shared memory that is allocated as needed, up to a configured limit. Using
dynamic buffers provides the benefit of statistical buffer sharing. An interface requests dynamic
buffers when its dedicated buffer pool is exhausted. The buffer manager grants the request based on
three conditions:
– The number of used and available dynamic buffers.
– The maximum number of cells that an interface can occupy.
– The available packet pointers (2k per interface). Each packet is managed in the buffer using a
unique packet pointer. Thus, each interface can manage up to 2k packets.
You can configure dynamic buffers per port on both 1G and 10G FPs and per queue on CSFs. By default,
the FP dynamic buffer allocation is 10 times oversubscribed. For the 48-port 1G card:
• Dynamic Pool= Total Available Pool(16384 cells) — Total Dedicated Pool = 5904 cells
• Oversubscription ratio = 10
• Dynamic Cell Limit Per port = 59040/29 = 2036 cells
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