Traffic Management API Questions
Venky Venkatesh
vvenkatesh at paloaltonetworks.com
Sun Jan 1 03:29:18 CET 2023
Hi,
I was looking at the DPDK Traffic Management API. I wanted to clarify some
things that I understand from the code (for software based TM
implementation (at 20.11)) vs the documentation.
- The documentation says "Traffic shaping: single/*dual rate,* private (*per
node*) and shared (by *multiple nodes*) shapers" are supported. However
it appears that the code supports only *single *rate shapers. Is my
understanding correct?
- If not, pls point me to where dual rate shaping is supported in the
software based TM implementation code.
- However, if my understanding is correct, can the authors clarify
the nature of issues they ran into in supporting dual rate (which thus
prevented them from implementing it)?
- The documentation comment above sounds like every node can have
shapers. However it appears that the code does not support shaping at the
port level. Again the same questions as above(regarding the accuracy of my
understanding and if it is accurate, the reasons from the author for not
supporting it)
- At the level of the TM API (*and* the associated software TM
implementation) are there any restrictions on the number of levels of QoS
hierarchy we can construct?
- Lastly, does the QoS framework API (which I suppose is built on lower
level building blocks including the TM API) expose the entire capabilities
of the TM API (e.g. dual rate shapers, shapers at port level, > 4 levels of
shaping etc.)? From the reading of the documentation it appears that there
may be restrictions imposed by the QoS framework API on top of what TM API
imposes. Can someone pls confirm this (and if so, the reason for doing so)?
Thanks
-Venky
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