RE: A question on Zero Copy

["Y P Cheng" <ycheng@advansys.com>]

> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
> julian_satran@il.ibm.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:58 PM
>
> Randall,
>
> What you want depends on what end and what application you are looking at.
> A target (in most cases) can live with A  while a complex initiator (host,
> not an appliance) will want B.

I question if target can live with A alone.  While it is true for
unsolicited messages, for solicited messages resulting from resource
management, the target uses R2T and "target task tag" to direct incoming
messages to desired buffers.

Y.P. Cheng