RE: iSCSI : Aborting non-SCSI tasks.

[Charles Monia <cmonia@NishanSystems.com>]

Hi Santosh:

> The iSCSI spec is missing description on how non-SCSI tasks should be
> aborted 

What is a non-SCSI task?

Charles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Santosh Rao [mailto:santoshr@cup.hp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: IPS Reflector
> Subject: iSCSI : Aborting non-SCSI tasks.
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> The iSCSI spec is missing description on how non-SCSI tasks should be
> aborted in order to flush stale PDUs of that task. Initiators will
> typically time non-SCSI [& SCSI] tasks and will need to resort to some
> form of abort and cleanup action on a timeout of the non-scsi task.
> 
> This is required in order to safely re-use the task tag resources
> without the danger of stale PDUs arriving from a previous 
> incarnation of
> that task tag.
> 
> The spec should provide some description on how this is to be done.
> Perhaps, the semantics of Abort Task can be extended to non-SCSI tasks
> as well, to avoid defining a second abort mechanism for 
> non-SCSI tasks.
> 
> - Santosh
>