RE: rationale to send PDUs in increasing CmdSn on single co nnection

Parav Pandit <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Sep 2007 06:00:37 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>>>> "Parav" == Parav Pandit
> <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>  Parav> If I take pragmatic approach, Any idea,
> currently how current
>  Parav> single connection target implementation is?
> 
> I suspect most of them are single connection.
> 

>  Parav> I mean, if current targets are smart enough
> (accept out of
>  Parav> order PDUs on single connection- liberal on
> point 3.2.2.1),
>  Parav> then initiators can use their DMA
> optimization.  What do you
>  Parav> say?
> 
> Don't.
> 
> You'd be creating an initiator that violates the
> protocol spec.  You'd
> have no reason to expect that to work at all.  Many
> targets will check
> this and call it a protocol violation (you may end
> up with the
> connection terminated).  Some may not notice but may
> end up doing the
> wrong thing.
> 
>       paul

[Parav] Thanks Paul. I certainly don't want to violate
the protocol. I was wondering how current qualified,
proven iscsi targets are behaving for this scenario.
And you confirmed the same, so will surely adhere to
the protocol.

Thanks,
Parav



       
____________________________________________________________________________________
Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. 
http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC


_______________________________________________
Ips mailing list
[email protected]
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ips