Re: iSCSI : Aborting non-SCSI tasks.

[Santosh Rao <santoshr@cup.hp.com>]

Hi Charles,

non-scsi tasks refers to Login, Logout, Text & NOP-OUT PDUs.

Initiators will need to time these tasks [exchanges ?] and how do they
deal with a timeout of such non-scsi tasks [exchanges/PDUs/commands] ?


Regards,
Santosh


Charles Monia wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
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