RE: iSCSI: Session Partial Resolution

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Bailey [mailto:steph@cs.uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:08 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: iSCSI: Session Partial Resolution 
> 
> 
> > In general, such requests are "think-time" limited and therefore non
> > blocking, so this seems not to be a problem in practice.
> 
> The abort task operation can be pretty heavyweight.  It frequently
> involves a lot of non-nominal, antioptimized (slowed down so something
> else can be fast) behavior.
> 
> That said, I'm not sure why it matters whether task management is fast
> or slow.
> 

Yes -- you're right, speed is not the issue.

The point I should have been making is that the one-at-a-time rule for task
management functions is ok because such requests are relatively infrequent
and finish within some "reasonably bounded time".

Charles