Overview of CoS Upgrade Requirements to Junos OS Release 12.2
Before you upgrade to Junos OS Release 12.2, you might need to edit the class-of-service (CoS) configuration, because the way the QFX Series handles lossless forwarding classes has changed in Junos OS Release 12.2.
By default, the fcoe and no-loss forwarding
classes are mapped to output queue 3 and output queue 4, respectively.
These are the only two forwarding classes (and the only two queues)
that support lossless transport.
In Junos OS Release 12.1 and earlier, explicitly setting the
lossless fcoe and no-loss forwarding classes
resulted in the same CoS behavior as using the default configuration.
However, in Junos OS Release 12.2, the behavior when you explicitly
configure the lossless forwarding classes differs from the behavior
when you use the default forwarding classes.
The default behavior differs from the explicit configuration behavior even if the explicit configuration is exactly the same as the default configuration.
If you use the default forwarding class configuration for the lossless queues (the configuration does not include explicit setting of the
fcoeor theno-lossforwarding classes), then thefcoeandno-lossqueues behave as lossless queues.If your CoS configuration does not explicitly configure the
fcoeandno-lossforwarding classes, you can upgrade from Junos OS Release 12.1 to Junos OS Release 12.2, and the behavior of the two lossless queues remains the lossless.If your configuration includes statements that explicitly configure the
fcoeor theno-lossforwarding class (using the[set class-of-service forwarding-classes class class-name queue-num queue-number]statement), after you upgrade to Junos OS Release 12.2, those queues do not receive lossless treatment and behave as lossy (best-effort) queues.If your CoS configuration explicitly configures the
fcoeandno-lossforwarding classes, to retain the lossless behavior of those queues, you need to remove the explicit configuration for these two forwarding classes from the CoS configuration before you upgrade.
If you upgrade to Junos OS Release 12.2 and the fcoe and no-loss forwarding classes are explicitly configured,
then those two queues continue to be used, but the traffic is treated
as lossy traffic, not lossless traffic. To make the queues for these
two forwarding classes lossless, you must delete the explicit forwarding
class configuration.
If you explicitly configured the fcoe or
the no-loss forwarding class and you upgrade to Junos OS
Release 12.2, the system does not return an upgrade error or a commit
error, or a generate a syslog message, to notify you that these forwarding
classes are no longer lossless. Traffic mapped to these forwarding
classes is not treated as lossless traffic until you remove the explicit
forwarding class configuration.
Before you upgrade, delete the fcoe and no-loss forwarding classes from the explicit configuration to preserve the
lossless behavior of traffic mapped to these forwarding classes.
To delete the explicit
fcoeforwarding class configuration:[edit] user@switch# delete class-of-service forwarding-class class fcoe queue-num 3 user@switch# commit
To delete the explicit
no-lossforwarding class configuration:[edit] user@switch# delete class-of-service forwarding-class class no-loss queue-num 4 user@switch# commit
If you try to delete these forwarding classes and they
have not been explicitly configured on the system, the system returns
the message warning: statement not found. This simply means
that there is no explicit configuration to delete and does not change
the lossless behavior of the fcoe and no-loss forwarding classes.
After you delete the explicit configuration for the fcoe and no-loss forwarding classes, traffic mapped to those
forwarding classes retains its lossless behavior after the upgrade
to Junos OS Release 12.2.