Administrator Guide

To disable PFC operation on an interface, enter the no pfc mode on command in DCB Input Policy
Configuration mode. PFC is enabled and disabled as global DCB operation is enabled (dcb-enable) or disabled
(
no dcb-enable).
You cannot enable PFC and link-level flow control at the same time on an interface.
NOTE: We do not recommended to use this command as it has been deprecated in the current
9.4(0.0) release. A warning message appears when you try to run this command indicating that
you have to use the dcb-map commands in the future.
priority-group bandwidth pfc
Configure the ETS bandwidth allocation and PFC mode used to manage port traffic in an 802.1p priority group.
Syntax
priority-group group-num {bandwidth percentage| strict-priority} pfc {on | off}
Parameters
priority-group
group-num
Enter the keyword priority-group followed by the number of an 802.1p priority
group. Use the priority-pgid command to create the priority groups in a DCB map.
bandwidth
percentage
Enter the keyword bandwidth followed by a bandwidth percentage allocated to the
priority group. The range of valid values is 1 to 100. The sum of all allocated bandwidth
percentages in priority groups in a DCB map must be 100%.
strict-priority Configure the priority-group traffic to be handled with strict priority scheduling. Strict-
priority traffic is serviced first, before bandwidth allocated to other priority groups is made
available.
pfc {on | off} Configure whether priority-based flow control is enabled (on) or disabled (off) for port
traffic in the priority group.
Defaults None
Command Modes DCB MAP
Command History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell EMC
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S6010-ON and S4048T-ON.
9.10(0.0) Introduced on the S6100-ON.
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0) Introduced on the S3048-ON and S4048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON and Z9500.
9.6(0.0) Added support to configure peak and committed rate on the S6000 platform.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S4810, S6000 platforms.
Usage Information
Use the dcb-map command to configure priority groups with PFC and/or ETS settings and apply them to
Ethernet interfaces.
Use the priority-pgid command to map 802.1p priorities to a priority group. You can assign each 802.1p
priority to only one priority group. A priority group consists of 802.1p priority values that are grouped together for
similar bandwidth allocation and scheduling, and that share latency and loss requirements. All 802.1p priorities
mapped to the same queue must be in the same priority group.
Repeat the priority-group bandwidth pfc command to configure PFC and ETS traffic handling for each
priority group in a DCB map.
You can enable PFC on a maximum of two priority queues.
If you configure more than one priority group as strict priority, the higher numbered priority queue is given
preference when scheduling data traffic.
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