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    [iSCSI] Resolution of management commands and multiple head of queue commands.


    • To: "Ips" <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
    • Subject: [iSCSI] Resolution of management commands and multiple head of queue commands.
    • From: "Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>
    • Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 06:57:42 -0700
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    All,
    
    iSCSI version .7 is a significant improvement.  Two areas that prompted a
    draft still seem unresolved.  Section 8.1 mentions a potential problem
    without addressing at least a suggested means of handling these situations.
    There are management commands that can not resolve with connection
    allegiance alone.  On another point, with no assurance or direct
    confirmation of Immediate Delivery Commands (IDC) and the potential for only
    a single command resource being allocated by the target, one must wonder how
    these commands are to be handled in practice.  Preventing more than a single
    command to be sent as IDC would be one solution as there is assurance there
    will be resources for only a single command.  If this were to be adopted as
    the method of handling these IDC commands, then such a flag could serve to
    allow an exception to the command window limit and avoid creating an
    overlaid command sequence count that then only serves to befuddle
    acknowledgement.  If multiple IDC commands need to be sent, then either
    waiting for acknowledgement or sending these commands consecutively where
    acknowledgement would indicate quickly status of these commands without the
    initiator pondering their status at a point in time where speed of
    resolution is important.
    
    Doug
    
    


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