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Chapter 20 Applying QoS Policies
Applying Low Latency Queueing
Note The upper limit of the range of values for the queue-limit and tx-ring-limit commands is determined
dynamically at run time. To view this limit, enter help or ? on the command line. The key determinants
are the memory needed to support the queues and the memory available on the device. The range of
queue-limit values is 0 through 2048 packets. The range of tx-ring-limit values is 3 through 128 packets.
Configuring Priority Queuing
You must use the priority-queue command, in global configuration mode, to create the priority queue
for an interface before priority queuing takes effect. You can apply one priority-queue command to any
interface that can be defined by the nameif command. All other traffic is delivered on a best-effort basis.
In general, you can apply a priority-queue command to any interface that can be defined by the nameif
command. The priority-queue command enters priority-queue mode, as shown by the prompt, which
lets you configure the maximum number of packets allowed in the transmit queue and the size of the
priority queue.
Note You cannot enable both priority queuing and policing together. In other words, only packets with normal
priority can be policed; packets with high priority are not policed.
Sizing the Priority Queue
The size that you specify for the priority queue affects both the low latency queue and the best-effort
queue. The queue-limit command specifies a maximum number of packets that can be queued to a
priority queue before it drops data. This limit must be in the range of 0 through 2048 packets.
Reducing Queue Latency
The tx-ring-limit command lets you configure the maximum number of packets (that is, the depth)
allowed to be queued in the Ethernet transmit driver ring at any given time. This allows for fine-tuning
the transmit queue to reduce latency and offer better performance through the transmit driver. This limit
must be in the range 3 through 128 packets on the PIX platform.
The default queue-limit is the number of average, 256-byte packets that the specified interface can
transmit in a 500-ms interval, with an upper limit of 2048 packets. A packet that stays more than 500 ms
in a network node might trigger a timeout in the end-to-end application. Such a packet can be discarded
in each network node.
The default tx-ring-limit is the number of maximum 1550-byte packets that the specified interface can
transmit in a 10-ms interval. This guarantees that the hardware-based transmit ring imposes no more than
10-ms of extra latency for a high-priority packet.
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