Users Guide

The following table describes the mapping between the threshold weight of the shared
buffer on the queue. It also shows the percentage of the available shared buffer used by
the queues for each of the corresponding threshold weights of the shared buffer:
shared-
threshold-
weight on the
queue
% of available shared buffer that can be consumed
by the queue
0 No dynamic sharing; shared buffer = 0.
1 0.77%
2 1.54%
3 3.03%
4 5.88%
5 11.11%
6 20%
7 33.33%
8 50%
9 66.67%
10 80%
11 88.89%
Example
Dell(conf-if-te-1/8)# Service-class buffer shared-threshold-
weight queue5 4 queue7 6
dcb pfc-queues
Configure the number of PFC queues.
Syntax
dcb pfc-queues value
Parameters
value Enter the number of PFC queues in the range of 0 through 4.
The number of ports supported based on lossless queues
configured will depend on the buffer.
Default The default number of PFC queues in the system is 2 for S4810 and 1 for S6000
platforms.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION mode
Data Center Bridging (DCB) 654