RE: Command Queue Depth (was asymmetric/Symmetric)

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: csapuntz@cisco.com [mailto:csapuntz@cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:40 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Cc: csapuntz@cisco.com
> Subject: Re: Command Queue Depth (was asymmetric/Symmetric)
> 
> 
> 
> Jim McGrath <Jim.McGrath@quantum.com> writes:
> 
> > The path I'd recommend is to allow people to oversubscribe 
> a target's
> > resources, and then to do a graceful recovery when that 
> gets you into
> > trouble.
> > 
> 

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> For oversubscribing command queues, is the TASK SET FULL 
> error condition
> sufficient?
> 

Hi Costa:

IMHO: Depends on how often it occurs, of course, and whether or not the
lapse in the ordering of SCSI commands is acceptable.  

Charles

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Charles Monia
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