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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: iSCSI: draft04 questions=== coments in text Julo "Mallikarjun C." <cbm@rose.hp.com> on 02/03/2001 22:49:49 Please respond to cbm@rose.hp.com To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: Subject: Re: iSCSI: draft04 questions Julian, Thanks. I am not clear on some. Comments. >2. I didn't find a way for an iSCSI target to say that it does not support >any unsolicited data at all. SPC-2 specifies that a zero FirstBurstSize >means unlimited. > >+++ UseR2T=yes (default) and ImmediateData=no +++ I am confused. I thought this combination disallows just the "immediate" data, and not the unsolicited data as a whole. The draft hints at this in section 1.2.5. "A target MAY separately enable immediate data without enabling the more general (separate data PDUs) form of unsolicited data." === for this case you have UseR2T=yes and ImmediateData=yes If I misunderstood, could you please comment how immediate data alone is disabled, while allowing unsolicited data of FirstBurstSize? === UseR2T=no ImmediateData=no >4. Somehow, "Asynchronous Message" seems at odds with the rest of the >usage in the draft in regards to PDUs (since a message is introduced as >PDU in section 1.2). Should we may be just call it an AEN PDU? Section >2.14.3 calls this so. (I realize that it may not always result in a >SCSI-level AER.) > >+++ Fixed 2.14.3 - vox populi in Orlando not to create confusion -:) +++ As I said in my message to David, since we said a message is a PDU in 1.2, an "Asynchronous Message PDU" would be a redundant term, unless we call it as "Asynchronous something PDU". Do you see what I was getting at? I would leave it upto you. >for an initiator, if any, between iSCSI event codes 2 & 3. Could you >please >comment? >+++ 2 is for the purists - message,logout,login, 3 indicates that the >target will disconnectd the named connection +++ >Also, isn't the time in seconds the maximum time than the minimum >time as currently stated? >+++ time is minimum - allows the target to do the cleanup before being hit >with a >login +++ Do I take it then that the draft currently doesn't specify the maximum time the targets should keep the session & connection records around hoping for a restart? I would strongly recommend adding that as an additional field in the payload, since that is a resource allocation and scalability issue. Thanks. === I assume that a traget can figure out by itself after a while that there is no rendezvous - but I am open to requests -- Mallikarjun Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Networked Storage Architecture Network Storage Solutions Organization MS 5668 Hewlett-Packard, Roseville. cbm@rose.hp.com
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