Re: Bidirectional SCSI commands and iSCSI

[Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu>]

> I think that software initiators will be widely used and they are far
> more efficient with fixed length headers for widely used operations.

In ST, fixed length headers were a design choice to permit hardware
acceleration.

Other than on very slow links, it's hard to argue with the performance
advantages of fixed length headers under any circumstances.

Steph