Re: [RFC] FC pass thru - Rev IV

Seokmann Ju
2008-12-01T21:49:34Z

Hi James,

On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Seokmann Ju wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:03 PM, James Smart wrote:
[snip]
>>
>>> 2. Would it be valuable to consider sending requests with
>>> WWNN:WWPN?
>>
>> I considered this, especially for the fchost ELS request. But it
>> means the LLDD has to do a nameserver query to find the n_port_id
>> corresponding to the names before it sent the ELS. It started to feel
>> like too much ancillary stuff for the LLDD to do to support the
>> request - so I punted. However, the app, where we typically don't
>> care if it has to do more work, is free to do this and resolve it to
>> the basic primitives. :)
> Thanks, I've got it.
One minor questions/clarification.
If I understood correctly, ELS only supports single sg. If this is
true, shouldn't it checked somewhere before the transport layer calls
LLD?

Thank you,
Seokmann