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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tom@opengridcomputing.com
Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, rick.jones2@hp.com, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	swise@opengridcomputing.com, divy@chelsio.com, kxie@chelsio.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com,
	michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, daisyc@us.ibm.com, wenxiong@us.ibm.com,
	bhua@us.ibm.com, dm@chelsio.com, leedom@chelsio.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:37:55 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813.183755.72334968.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A389DB.9050002@opengridcomputing.com>

From: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:26:51 -0500

> Can you explain how this "information" somehow doesn't qualify as 
> "state". Doesn't the next expected sequence number at the very least 
> need to be updated? una? etc...?
> 
> Could you also include the "non-state-full" information necessary to do 
> iSCSI header digest validation, data placement, and marker removal? 

It's stateless because the full packet traverses the real networking
stack and thus can be treated like any other packet.

The data placement is a side effect that the networking stack can
completely ignore if it chooses to.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-14  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30  0:19 [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator Karen Xie
2008-07-30 18:15 ` Shyam_Iyer
2008-07-30 18:37   ` Karen Xie
2008-07-30 19:21 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-30 21:35   ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-01  0:51     ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 18:45       ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 20:07         ` Mike Christie
2008-08-08 18:09         ` Steve Wise
2008-08-08 22:15           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-08 22:20             ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-09  7:28             ` David Miller
2008-08-09 14:04               ` Steve Wise
2008-08-10  5:14               ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10  5:47                 ` David Miller
2008-08-10  6:34                   ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10 17:57                   ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 16:09                   ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:09                     ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:37                       ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:51                         ` David Miller
2008-08-11 23:20                       ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 23:45                         ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12  0:22                         ` David Miller
2008-08-10  5:12             ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10  5:46               ` David Miller
2008-08-11 16:07                 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:08                   ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:39                     ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:52                       ` David Miller
2008-08-11 18:13                 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-11 21:12                   ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:41                     ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:53                       ` David Miller
2008-08-12 21:57                         ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12 22:01                           ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:02                           ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:21                             ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-13  1:57                               ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-13 18:35                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 19:29                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-13 20:13                                   ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:24                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 21:59                                     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-08-13 20:23                                 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:27                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 18:30                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 21:27                         ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 22:08                           ` David Miller
2008-08-13 23:03                             ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 23:12                               ` David Miller
2008-08-14  1:26                                 ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14  1:37                                   ` David Miller [this message]
2008-08-14  1:52                                     ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14  2:05                                       ` David Miller
2008-08-14  2:44                                         ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14  1:57                                     ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14  2:07                                       ` David Miller
2008-08-14  2:09                                   ` David Miller
2008-08-14 20:45                     ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-14 22:23                       ` David Miller
2008-08-15 12:19                         ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-10  6:24               ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10  9:19               ` Alan Cox
2008-08-10 12:49                 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-10 14:54                   ` James Bottomley
     [not found]                     ` <1218380086.3418.21.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-11 16:50                       ` Mike Christie
2008-07-31  1:24   ` Karen Xie
2008-07-31 12:45     ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-07-31 12:33 ` Boaz Harrosh

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