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From: Wenchao Hao <haowenchao@huawei.com>
To: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>,
	Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>, Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>, <liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com>,
	<linfeilong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scsi:iscsi: Fix multiple iscsi session unbind event sent to userspace
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:50:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4e4c09b-9426-eede-a83c-8c55f6dc7d2d@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64689ca9-62eb-27e1-63df-e2e8c1a59cbb@oracle.com>


On 2022/10/23 11:21, Mike Christie wrote:
>> I have some wonder about the target_id like be2iscsi which allocated from 
>> iscsi_sess_ida. Should not we get the target_id from iSCSI target?
>> If they allocate target_id with an random value, how to handle the
>> iscsi_user_scan_session which would check the session's target_id.
>>
> For iscsi, that target id is only a number that's used on the initiator side
> to track the target. The target has no idea what it is and it's never
> sent/used/passed to the target.
> 
> For example, the qla4xxx driver uses it to lookup persistent target info it
> has stored on it's flash. The other use is that we need a unique name for
> the target in sysfs and that target id is used as part of that name.
> .

Thanks for your answer, I would update this patch and open-iscsi's PR.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-24 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-21 23:57 [PATCH v4] scsi:iscsi: Fix multiple iscsi session unbind event sent to userspace Wenchao Hao
2022-10-21 17:24 ` Mike Christie
2022-10-22  9:40   ` Wenchao Hao
2022-10-23  3:21     ` Mike Christie
2022-10-24 12:50       ` Wenchao Hao [this message]

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