RE: iSCSI: StatSN Field in R2T messages.

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

>>>>> "Gwendal" == Gwendal Grignou <ggrignou@silverbacksystems.com> writes:
 >> For Data-In as you have guessed it is used actively (and
 >> advanced) when S=1 and reserved otherwise.  And yes we could
 >> have chosen to present it and not advance it when S=0 but
 >> the decision not to do so was to avoid having too many
 >> fields processed for a Data PDU (in the early days we
 >> contemplated Data PDU to have nothing else than the
 >> placement information for a Remote DMA).

 Gwendal> GG: I totally agree not to send StatSN in DataIN if S=0, so
 Gwendal> to reduce in the same way the number of field to process in
 Gwendal> the R2T message, couldn't we mark the bytes 24 to 27 as
 Gwendal> reserved in the R2T message?

If we weren't in last call, that would be a good suggestion to
consider.  But we are in last call, which is the wrong time to make
message format changes unless they are essential for fixing bugs.

	paul