Cisco Catalyst 3560-X Series, Software Configuration Manual

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Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring QoS
Understanding QoS
Figure 1-12 Queueing and Scheduling Flowchart for Egress Ports on Catalyst 3560-X Switches
Each port supports four egress queues, one of which (queue 1) can be the egress expedite queue. These
queues are assigned to a queue-set. All traffic exiting the switch flows through one of these four queues
and is subjected to a threshold based on the QoS label assigned to the packet.
Figure 1-13 shows the egress queue buffer. The buffer space is divided between the common pool and
the reserved pool. The switch uses a buffer allocation scheme to reserve a minimum amount of buffers
for each egress queue, to prevent any queue or port from consuming all the buffers and depriving other
queues, and to control whether to grant buffer space to a requesting queue. The switch detects whether
the target queue has not consumed more buffers than its reserved amount (under-limit), whether it has
consumed all of its maximum buffers (over limit), and whether the common pool is empty (no free
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Receive packet from
the internal ring.
Read QoS label
(DSCP or CoS value).
Determine egress queue
number and threshold
based on the label.
Are thresholds
being exceeded?
Send the packet
out the port.
Queue the packet. Service
the queue according to
the SRR weights.
Drop packet.
Start
Done
Yes
No
Rewrite DSCP and/or
CoS value as
appropriate.