RE: iSCSI: DLB-T.26 (response for TASK REASSIGN)

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

As before - there is already text and commented issue dealing with that.
Julo


                                                                                                                                            
                      Black_David@emc.c                                                                                                     
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Ok with an upper case MUST for sending the TMF response
first, please.  Thanks, --David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mallikarjun C. [mailto:cbm@rose.hp.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: iSCSI: DLB-T.26 (response for TASK REASSIGN)
>
>
> > [T.26] 9.6  Task Management Function Response
> >
> >    For the functions ABORT TASK, ABORT TASK SET, CLEAR ACA, CLEAR TASK
> >    SET, LOGICAL UNIT RESET, TARGET COLD RESET and TARGET WARM RESET,
the
> >    target performs the requested Task Management function and sends a
> >    Task Management Response back to the initiator.
> >
> > TASK REASSIGN does not get a response.  Was this intended?
>
> It may be appropriate to include it in this list, but then it
> would be nice to make sure that the
> target sends the response to the TMF first before acting on
> the reassigned task (which might
> possibly involve retransmitting an old status sent before the
> connection failure with a new StatSN).
> Initiators may get confused if the response for the
> reassigned task arrives prior to the the response
> to the TMF itself (even while there are no StatSN holes).
>
> I suggest:
>
> For all the task management functions defined in 9.5.1, the
> target performs the requested function and sends a
> Task Management Response back to the initiator.  In the case
> of the TASK REASSIGN function, the target must
> send the reponse to the task management function request
> first before acting on the reassigned task.
>
>
> Mallikarjun