TP-Link TL-SL3452 Configuring Quality of Service, Quality of Service Overview, Mapping to Queues

Section 12. Configuring Quality of Service

This section contains the following topics:

Quality of Service Overview

Enabling Quality of Service

Mapping Queues

12.1 Quality of Service Overview

Network traffic is usually unpredictable, and the only basic assurance that can be offered is best effort traffic delivery. To overcome this challenge, Quality of Service (QoS) is applied throughout the network. This ensures that network traffic is prioritized according to specified criteria, and that specific traffic receives preferential treatment. QoS in the network optimizes network performance and entails two basic facilities:

Classifying incoming traffic into handling classes, based on an attribute, including:

–The ingress interface

–Packet content

–A combination of these attributes

Providing various mechanisms for determining the allocation of network resources to different handling classes, including:

–The assignment of network traffic to a particular hardware queue

–The assignment of internal resources

–Traffic shaping

In this document, the terms Class of Service (CoS) and QoS are used in the following context:

CoS provides varying Layer 2 traffic services. CoS refers to classification of traffic to traffic-classes, which are handled as an aggregate whole, with no per-flow settings. CoS is usually related to the 802.1p service that classifies flows according to their Layer 2 priority, as set in the VLAN header.

QoS refers to Layer 2 traffic and above. QoS handles per-flow settings, even within a single traffic class.

The QoS facility involves the following elements:

Traffic Classification — Classifies each incoming packet as belonging to a given traffic class, based on the packet contents and/or the context.

Assignment to Hardware Queues — Assigns incoming packets to forwarding queues. Packets are sent to a particular queue for handling as a function of the traffic class to which they belong, as defined by the classification mechanism.

Traffic Class-Handling Attributes — Applies QoS/CoS mechanisms to different classes, including:

–Bandwidth Management

–Shaping/ Rate Limiting

–Policing

12.1.1 Mapping to Queues

Queues are used in both Basic and Advanced QoS modes. Default settings are applied to maps in Service QoS mode. A Trust Behavior can be selected, or the output service fields can be selected, including:

VLAN Priority Tags (VPT) — VPTs are mapped to an output queues based on the VPT. While queue mapping is user- defined, the VPT default mapping to the output queue is as follows. In the VPT default mapping, Queue 1 has the lowest priority.

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