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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: iscsi : default iscsi mode page settings.Santosh, Where did you find these SCSI Mode page settings? At least I could not find it in SAM-2 document? The mode select command is available in SPI documents but they are meant for particular SCSI device and not for iSCSI device? Be it whatever the case I would like to ask why the default value of MaximumBurstSize is 512 units and why is the default value of FirstBurstSize 128 units. remember each unit is 512 bytes as defined in iSCSI 7.9x revisions so setting the default value of FirstBurstSize to 128 units means 65536 bytes or 64K Bytes and similarly the value of Maximumburstsize is 256K Bytes. Is it Ok to have the FirstBurstsize of 64KB?? Sanjeev -----Original Message----- From: Santosh Rao [mailto:santoshr@cup.hp.com] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:04 AM To: IPS Reflector Subject: iscsi : default iscsi mode page settings. All, Speaking on the subject of default settings, some questions on recent changes to the iscsi mode select pages...... 1) Section 3 of rev 7.94 of the iscsi draft attempts to call out default values for the iscsi mode pages. Per my understanding, there are no defaults for SCSI mode pages, and all the setting are assumed to be disabled, unless explicitly turned on/enabled through a mode select. IOW, the keys in scsi mode pages are defined to be enabling certain features and the default settings are that these features are turned off unless a mode select is explicitly used to enable them. However, the iscsi mode pages seems to be using the opposite policy and is advertising default settings for mode pages, that too, agreesive ones at that! IOW, an initiator implemenation has to explicitly issue a mode select to disable/turn_off features rather than issue a mode select to turn them on. Here's a few examples : * default MaximumBurstSize : 512 units * default EMDP : 1 (i.e. modify data pointers is enabled by default !) * default FirstBurstSize : 128 units. (i.e. initiators MUST use solicited data, unless they explicitly turn it off using mode select, since, not sending solicited data when it has been negotiated implies a target may abort the I/O. I suggest that in keeping with the scsi mode pages, NO default settings be advertised for any iscsi mode pages. i.e. all defaults are conservative (set to 0), unless explicitly turned on thru a mode select. Comments ? Regards, Santosh "Mallikarjun C." wrote: > Matthew, > > I completely agree that the default should be "no"! I pointed this > out sometime ago myself. Apart from what you point out, the default > setting for "ImmediateData" seems to be at variance with the > conservative default for "InitialR2T" ("yes"). > > Julian, could you please consider this request? > > Regards. > -- > Mallikarjun > "BURBRIDGE,MATTHEW (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex2)" wrote: > > > > Julian, > > > > Appendix D24 (ImmediateData) does not describe the result of negotiation if > > the two sides differ. I presume that since the default is "yes", then only > > if both sides agree to "no" is immediate data turned off. Please can this > > be stated. > > > > Additionally, I feel that the default value for ImmediateData should be > > "no". > > > > Similarly, there is no statement on MaxOutstandingR2T. Presumable the > > minimum is selected.
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