Exporting Priority Flow Control (PFC) counters

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Peter Phaal

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Mar 17, 2026, 9:03:12 PM (10 days ago) Mar 17
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The following proposal defines a structure for periodically exporting a set of PFC counters along with standard interface counters.


Supporting PFC-specific counters within the sFlow protocol is critical for maintaining high-performance, lossless Ethernet environments, such as those used for AI/ML training and RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet). Important use cases for reporting PFC counters in sFlow include: * Reveal "silent" congestion due to paused links * Visibility into network deadlocks due to PFC storms * Correlate traffic and drops with flow control

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