Re: iSCSI Markers

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "John" == John Hufferd <hufferd@us.ibm.com> writes:
 John> You have FIM or COWS, neither one is useful with TUFs, except
 John> that they have a similar header with COWS, not is hardly a
 John> reason to put up with the SCANNING and Stuffing of COWS
 John> Pointers in the Data.  This is especially since depending on
 John> the development approach you may find the Pointers pointing the
 John> wrong way for either sending or receiving in some HW pipelining
 John> designs.  And it is always a poorer approach then FIM in
 John> Software.

Agreed. FIM is nasty, COWS is nastier.  Both may require a memory to
memory copy, but at least FIM doesn't require you to examine the data
you're moving.

Clearly, the real answer is a transport layer that isn't a byte stream
transport.  TP4 or SCTP, anyone?  :-)

       paul