iSCSI: padding on intermediate sequences

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Subject: iSCSI: padding on intermediate sequences

From: Eddy Quicksall <Eddy_Quicksall@ivivity.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:52:50 -0500

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Section 9.7.7 says:

The Data Segments of Data-in and Data-out PDUs SHOULD be filled to the

integer number of 4 byte words (real payload) unless the F bit is set

to 1.

This allows one to pad intermediate sequences of a transfer. But, there are reasons why padding on intermediate sequences within a transfer can make life difficult.

Can we forbid padding on all but the last PDU for the transfer? If that is objectionable, could we forbid padding on all but the last PDU of a transfer if DataInOrder=yes.

Eddy

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