what does 1p7q8t queue mean?

Nov 24, 2006 2 Replies

The description of the cisco 6500 10 GE module describes receive and transmit queues using the following notation:



RX: 8q8t TX: 1p7q8t



What does this mean?



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1p7q8t = one strict priority queue, seven WRR queues, and eight thresholds per WRR queue

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This PDF is rather detailed...

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RX 8q8T is similar Q scheme on input - the 8 port card "only" has 2 * 20 Gbps to the fabric (and less than that available, since packets get tagged inside the box).

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