Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

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QoS Ports and Queues
Configuring QoS
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OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide
September 2009
• The weight assigned to a WRR queue designates the number of packets the queue sends out before the 
scheduler moves on to the next queue. For example, a queue weight of 10 sends out 10 packets at each 
interval.
• The weight assigned to a DRR queue determines the number of bytes that the queue will service. The 
higher the queue weight assigned to a DRR queue, the higher the percentage of traffic that is serviced 
by that queue. For example, a queue with a weight of three will send four times as much traffic as a 
queue with a weight of one.
• On OmniSwitch 6850 and 9000 Series switches, each DRR weight value is associated with the follow-
ing number of bytes: 1=10K, 2=20K, 3=40K, 4=80K, 5=160K, 6=320K, 7=640K, 8=1280K, 9=2560K, 
10=5120K, 11=10M, 12=20M, 13=40M, 14=80M, and 15=160M. For example, if the configured DRR 
queue weights are 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4, queues 1 and 2 will service up to 10K each, queues 3 and 4 will 
service up to 20K each, queues 5 and 6 will service up to 40K each, and queues 7 and 8 will service up 
to 80K.
• On OmniSwitch 6400 switches, each DRR weight value is associated with the following number of 
bytes: 1=2K, 2=4K, 3=6K, 4=8K, 5=10K, 6=12K, 7=14K, 8=16K, 9=18K, 10=20K, 11=22K, 12=24K, 
13=26K, 14=28K, 15=30K. For example, if the configured DRR queue weights are 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4, 
queues 1 and 2 will service up to 2K each, queues 3 and 4 will service up to 4K each, queues 5 and 6 
will service up to 6K each, and queues 7 and 8 will service up to 8K.
The queuing scheme selected is the scheme that is used to shape traffic on destination (egress) ports and is 
referred to as the QoS servicing mode for the port. It is possible to configure a default servicing mode that 
will apply to all switch ports (see 
ure the servicing mode on an individual port basis (see 
). 
Note that the QoS servicing mode only applies to destination ports because it is at this point where traffic 
shaping is effected on the flows. In addition, different ports can use different servicing modes. 
Configuring the Servicing Mode for a Port
 command is used to configure the queuing scheme for an individual port. 
For example, the following command selects the strict priority scheme for port 1/2:
-> qos port 1/2 servicing mode strict-priority
The following command selects the WRR scheme for port 1/8:
-> qos port 1/8 servicing mode wrr
In the above example, a weight for each of the eight WRR queues was not specified; therefore, the default 
value of 1 is used for each queue. The following example selects the WRR scheme for port 1/10 and 
assigns a weighted value to each queue:
-> qos port 1/10 servicing mode wrr 0 2 3 4 8 1 1 7
To reset the servicing mode for the port back to the global default mode, use the default parameter with 
this command and do not specify a queueing scheme. For example,
-> qos port 1/10 servicing mode default
 command is used to set the global default queuing scheme that is used 
for all ports. See 
 for more information.
Note the following when configuring the port servicing mode: