Re: iSCSI: Use of the A bit

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

Excerpt of message (sent 15 March 2002) by Mallikarjun C.:
> I agree with Julian.
> 
> Seems to me that targets should be allowed to ask for an ack
> on the last Data-In PDU that concludes the entire transfer for the
> task - a follow-up NOP-ping is needless.  I propose that we
> 
> replace:
>   "it MAY set the A bit to 1 only once every MaxBurstSize bytes and MUST NOT do so more frequently than this."
> 
> with:
>   "it MAY set the A bit to 1 only once every MaxBurstSize bytes or on the last
>    Data-In PDU that concludes the entire requested transfer from the target's
>    perspective, and MUST NOT do so more frequently than this."

Sounds good to me.  As far as I can tell, this matches the intent of
what Eddy and Kevin were talking about.

     paul