Re: Proposed Connection Recovery Additions for Draft 03

[Mark Bakke <mark.bakke@nuspeed.com>]

Julian-

Permission is granted to use anything we've sent.  Anyway, increasing
the command request header to 48 is probably necessary to fit everything
in, especially given Costa's thinking on 32-bit CmdRN and StatRN in
the presense of commands that can take a long time.

Talk to you in 10 minutes,

Mark

julian_satran@il.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Excellent job.  It described mostly what I had in mind.
> 
> With your permission I will use even your wording whenever possible.
> 
> I thought I had the AckStatRN (MaxStatRN) but I could not piggyback it on
> the right messages
> - the headers are too short.
> 
> Also if you think about a layered implementation - Costa's proposal to use
> a separate
> PDU makes sense as those are generated by iSCSI alone and convey values of
> iSCSI registers.
> 
> I would like to hear what everybody has to say about it. The alternative
> looks like increasing the
> header (48?)
> 
> I would also like to clarify for implementors that device-recovery is to be
> based on Initiator Tag as it
> it is the only identifier unchanged for the life of the task while the two
> numberings are only for
> the delivery mechanism (iSCSI).
> 
> Regards,
> Julo

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