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Increasing Available Bandwidth on Rich-Queuing MPCs by Bypassing the Queuing Chip

date_range 29-Nov-23

Queuing MPCs contain a queuing chip that enables rich-queuing features such as hierarchical and per-vlan queuing. By default, all traffic passing through an interface on one of these MPCs also passes through the queuing chip, which decreases the available bandwidth of the interface. If you do not require hierarchical or per-vlan queuing on a particular interface of a queuing MPC, you can bypass the queuing chip to increase the available bandwidth.

To bypass the queuing chip on a queuing MPC, you must be running Junos OS Release 14.2 or later.

Starting with Junos OS 18.2R1, you can enable this option on vMX routers to save a vCPU when scheduling is not needed on an interface.

To bypass the queuing chip on an interface on a queuing MPC:

  1. Ensure that neither per-unit-scheduler nor hierarchical-scheduler is configured on the interface.
    Note:

    It is not possible to bypass the queuing chip on an interface if per-unit or hierarchical scheduling is configured on that interface.

  2. Ensure that flexi-queuing-mode is enabled.
  3. Enable bypass-queuing-chip on the interface.

    For example:

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    [edit interfaces]
    user@router# set interface- name bypass-queuing-chip
    
  4. Commit your changes.
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    [edit interfaces]
    user@router# show
    interface-name {
        bypass-queueing-chip;
    }
  5. Verify your changes.
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    user@router> show interfaces interface-name 
    Physical interface: interface-name, Enabled, Physical link is Up
      Interface index: 147, SNMP ifIndex: 524
      Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, MRU: 1522, LAN-PHY mode, Speed: 1000mbps,
      BPDU Error: None, MAC-REWRITE Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled,
      Flow control: Enabled, Auto-negotiation: Enabled, Remote fault: Online
      Pad to minimum frame size: Disabled
      Device flags   : Present Running
      Interface flags: SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x4000
      Link flags     : None
      CoS queues     : 8 supported, 4 maximum usable queues
      Schedulers     : 0, Queuing Chip Bypassed
      Current address: 00:21:59:0f:35:31, Hardware address: 00:21:59:0f:35:31
      Last flapped   : 2014-04-29 14:10:18 PDT (02:27:46 ago)
      Input rate     : 0 bps (0 pps)
      Output rate    : 0 bps (0 pps)
      Active alarms  : None
      Active defects : None
      Interface transmit statistics: Disabled

Change History Table

Feature support is determined by the platform and release you are using. Use Feature Explorer to determine if a feature is supported on your platform.

Release
Description
18.2R1
Starting with Junos OS 18.2R1, you can enable this option on vMX routers to save a vCPU when scheduling is not needed on an interface.
14.2
To bypass the queuing chip on a queuing MPC, you must be running Junos OS Release 14.2 or later.
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