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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: lemons_terry@emc.com
Cc: dgilbert@interlog.com, nab@linux-iscsi.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: SCSI persistent reservation terms
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:09:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271084975.4428.12.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BEB5F9B6605A140847DEEEDF7439C5D04125F6D@CORPUSMX50A.corp.emc.com>

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:53 -0400, lemons_terry@emc.com wrote:
> Hi Doug
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I did stare at Table 51 before writing my email.
> The 'Processing' language for the first and third rows is exactly the
> same; that's why I'm still confused!
> 
> I've printed and read (several times) both section 5.7 'Reservations'
> and sections 6.13 'PERSISTENT RESERVE IN' / 6.14 'PERSISTENT RESERVE
> OUT'.  But I don't see any language that explains the difference between
> 'write_exclusive' and 'write_exclusive_registrants_only'.  If this is in
> there, I apologize for not seeing it.

The change is in the definition of the "reservation holder" for the
reservation (5.7.10).  For exclusive all registrants reservations, the
holder is all registered initiators; otherwise it's the initiator port
the reservation was issued on.

James



      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 14:55 SCSI persistent reservation terms lemons_terry
2010-04-07 18:47 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-04-12 13:37   ` lemons_terry
2010-04-12 13:54     ` Douglas Gilbert
2010-04-12 14:53       ` lemons_terry
2010-04-12 15:09         ` James Bottomley [this message]

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