[c-nsp] Increasing hold-queue to alleviate microbursts with small hardware queues

[John Neiberger]

Thanks, I suspected that was the case or it would have been mentioned
before. We have played around with different queuing parameters and queue
depths, but I'm trying to find some other potential solutions.

Would a shaping service policy work for this? I'm wondering what the impact
would be on microbursts if we enabled shaping. Would that give us any
additional short-term buffer space?

Thanks again,
John
On Aug 17, 2012 2:44 AM, "Phil Mayers" <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 08/17/2012 07:02 AM, John Neiberger wrote:
>
>> This has come up a few times recently. We continue to run into new
>> situations where we see lots of output queue drops on 6748 blades,
>> especially in cases where a 10g link is feeding a 1g link. We see OQDs
>> long before the interface approaches anything close to line rate on
>> average.
>>
>
> As I'm sure you're aware, but just for the archives, average rate is
> pretty irrelevant in this scenario. All that matters is the burst rate at
> the ingress (10 gig) port.
>
> 6748 cards have ~1.3Mb of per-port output buffer, which at 9Gbit/sec (10
> in minus 1 out) will fill in ~1.1 milliseconds. At some fraction of that
> load (e.g. 5 in, 1 out) it'll scale appropriately.
>
> If you are doing QoS with the default queue parameters, you'll get
> (possibly much) less than that.
>
>  bursty traffic. Is it possible that the solution to this particular
>> problem is this simple?
>>
>
> As others have said, no. It won't do anything.
>
> You're sure you've either disabled QoS or reconfigured the queues to
> allocate space appropriately i.e. in proportion to the offered load?
>
> TBH microburst problems on this platform don't come up on the list very
> often, as far as I can see. It's usually the lower-end catalysts.
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