New and Changed Information

This chapter provides release-specific information for each new and changed feature in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS QoS Configuration Guide.

New and Changed Information

This table summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Quality of Service Configuration Guide and where they are documented.

Table 1. New and Changed Features

Feature

Description

Changed in Release

Where Documented

FEX QoS policy

Added support for the classification of traffic classes and the marking of incoming and outgoing packets.

6.1(2)I3(2)

Configuing Marking

Configuing Classification

QoS TCAM Lite Regions

Enables configuration of single wide QoS TCAM entries for IPV4. QoS TCAM lite regions support QoS policies for Layer 2, Layer 3, VLAN, and FEX interfaces.

6.1(2)I3(2)

QoS_TCAM_Lite_Regions

Link Level Flow

Added support for link level flow control.

6.1(2)I3(1)

Queuing and Scheduling

Buffer Optimization

Added support for controlling the QoS shared buffer.

6.1(2)I3(1)

Queuing and Scheduling

Ingress Queuing

Added support for the ingress queuing policy.

6.1(2)I3(1)

Queuing and Scheduling

8q Mode

Added support for system-defined objects for the 8q mode feature.

6.1(2)I1(3)

Using Modular QoS CLI

8q Mode

Added support for system-defined objects for the 8q mode feature.

6.1(2)I2(2a)

Using Modular QoS CLI

AFD

Added support for approximate fair-drop (AFD) feature.

6.1(2)I2(2)

Queuing and Scheduling

Buffer-boost

Added support for enabling extra buffers with the buffer-boost feature .

6.1(2)I2(1)

Queuing and Scheduling

TCAM carving

Added support for changing the size of the access control list (ACL) with the ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) feature.

6.1(2)I2(1)

TCAM Carving