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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