SAS rate matching - ALIGNs in OPEN

Seto, Pak-lung pak-lung.seto at intel.com
Wed Feb 19 14:21:56 PST 2003


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Seto, Pak-lung" <pak-lung.seto at intel.com>
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I agree and I don't know what is the reason to put in such requirements?

Pak



-----Original Message-----
From: Hoglund, Tim [mailto:thoglund at lsil.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:19 PM
To: T10 Reflector
Subject: Re: SAS rate matching - ALIGNs in OPEN


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Hoglund, Tim" <thoglund at lsil.com>
*
I do not agree with imposing a requirement to send a rate-matching ALIGN
immediately following EOAF - this is a needless constraint on
implementations.

The OPEN address frame is not delivered through the topology, rather is
store/forward through expanders, therefore it should not matter whether
the
rate matching ALIGNs begin as EOAF/ALIGN/idle dword or as EOAF/idle
dword/ALIGN.

TimH

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-----Original Message-----
From: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) [mailto:Elliott at hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:40 PM
To: t10 at t10.org
Subject: SAS rate matching - ALIGNs in OPEN


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott at hp.com>
*
sas-r03 7.15 Rate matching says:
    The OPEN address frame itself may or may not have ALIGNs
interspersed.

A letter ballot comment asked that we be very precise in mandating that
the first dword after the OPEN address frame shall be an ALIGN,
yielding:

    After transmitting the OPEN address frame, the source phy shall
start rate matching at the selected connection rate. The first dword
after the EOF shall be an ALIGN or NOTIFY for rate matching. 

Should I keep or delete the sentence about ALIGNs (and NOTIFYs) in the
OPEN address frame?  It's true, but might lead someone to think they
should start rate matching in the OPEN (there's probably no reason to do
so).

 
--
Rob Elliott, elliott at hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Industry Standard Server Storage Advanced Technology
https://ecardfile.com/id/RobElliott



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