Provided are a traffic management scheduling method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving an operation request, where the operation request comprises: a dequeue request or an enqueue request (S102); and performing a scheduling operation on a queue linked list according to the operation request, where the queue linked list comprises one or more active queues and one or more inactive queues (S104). The technical solution solves a technical problem in the related art that the increasing number of queues has an excessively high demand for buffer resources, resulting in traffic management difficulties, thereby saving storage resources required for buffering linked list information, and enhancing the performance of a traffic management system.