Re: [SOLVED] output discards (queue drops) on switchport

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Hi Bairo,

On 12.09.2017 00:41, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> On 12 September 2017 at 01:15, Blair Bethwaite
> <blair.bethwaite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Flow-control may well just mask the real problem. Did your throughput improve? Also, does that mean flow-control is on for all ports on the switch...? IIUC, then such "global pause" flow-control will mean switchports with links to upstream network devices will also be paused if the switch is attempting to pass packets from those ports down to a congested host.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't finish explaining that... The problem in the above
> scenario is that global-pause is link-level, so even if you have other
> flows destined for non-congested hosts on the same switch and plenty
> of upstream/fabric link capacity for them, those flows will also get
> paused due to a single congested downstream host. For any particular
> topology and congestion rate there is likely to be a tipping point.

Flow control was activated only on the 25 GBit/s ports. Those ports are
dedicated ports for ceph and traffic will not leave the switch. I used a
seperate vlan.

Regards,
Andreas
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