Enhanced Transmission Selection - Dell S4048–ON Configuration Manual

• PFC uses DCB MIB IEEE 802.1azd2.5 and PFC MIB IEEE 802.1bb-d2.2.
• PFC uses DCB MIB IEEE 802.1azd2.5 and PFC MIB IEEE 802.1bb-d2.2.
• PFC is supported on specified 802.1p priority traffic (dot1p 0 to 7) and is configured per interface. However, only two lossless
queues are supported on an interface: one for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged traffic and one for Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage traffic. Configure the same lossless queues on all ports.
• A dynamic threshold handles intermittent traffic bursts and varies based on the number of PFC priorities contending for buffers,
while a static threshold places an upper limit on the transmit time of a queue after receiving a message to pause a specified
priority. PFC traffic is paused only after surpassing both static and dynamic thresholds for the priority specified for the port.
• By default, PFC is enabled when you enable DCB. If you have not loaded FCoE_DCB_Config and iSCSI_DCB_Config, DCB is
disabled. When you enable DCB globally, you cannot simultaneously enable link-level flow control.
• Buffer space is allocated and de-allocated only when you configure a PFC priority on the port.

Enhanced Transmission Selection

Enhanced transmission selection (ETS) supports optimized bandwidth allocation between traffic types in multiprotocol (Ethernet,
FCoE, SCSI) links.
ETS allows you to divide traffic according to its 802.1p priority into different priority groups (traffic classes) and configure bandwidth
allocation and queue scheduling for each group to ensure that each traffic type is correctly prioritized and receives its required
bandwidth. For example, you can prioritize low-latency storage or server cluster traffic in a traffic class to receive more bandwidth
and restrict best-effort LAN traffic assigned to a different traffic class.
The following figure shows how ETS allows you to allocate bandwidth when different traffic types are classed according to 802.1p
priority and mapped to priority groups.
Figure 33. Enhanced Transmission Selection
The following table lists the traffic groupings ETS uses to select multiprotocol traffic for transmission.
Table 16. ETS Traffic Groupings
Traffic Groupings
Group ID
Group bandwidth
Group transmission selection algorithm (TSA)
In Dell Networking OS, ETS is implemented as follows:
• ETS supports groups of 802.1p priorities that have:
Description
A 4-bit identifier assigned to each priority group. The range is
from 0 to 7 configurable; 8 - 14 reservation and 15.0 - 15.7 is
strict priority group..
Percentage of available bandwidth allocated to a priority group.
Type of queue scheduling a priority group uses.
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
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