FW: Consideration of major changes to ACA behavior

Robert Snively rsnively at Brocade.COM
Thu May 6 11:59:41 PDT 2004


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Robert Snively" <rsnively at Brocade.COM>
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Please note that the document number is actually 141r0, not
114r0.

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Subject: Consideration of major changes to ACA behavior


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Robert Snively" <rsnively at Brocade.COM>
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George Penokie has presented a document T10/04-114r0 describing
some modifications to ACA behavior.  In particular, he defines a
new behavior moderated by the "Allow Task Management Function Only" 
bit that rejects all Tasks with ACA ACTIVE status.

As part of the discussion, a second question was raised that
reflects on the fundamental behavior of ACA.

It was proposed that CLEAR ACA from any Initiator Port/Target Port that
participates in the task set shall clear the ACA Condition for
that task set.  In the past, CLEAR ACA would clear the ACA Condition
only if it was performed by the Initiator Port and Target Port
through which the ACA was established.

The original mechanism allowed the notified application client 
to take the responsibility for the recovery and the termination 
of the recovery period.  Alternative mechanisms were allowed for 
the case where the I_T nexus failed.

The newly proposed mechanism allows any application client to clear
the ACA condition, regardless of whether or not it received the
original notification.  This may work as desired if the application
clients have out-of-band understandings about the proper time to
terminate an ACA, but will not work correctly if such understandings
are not established.

Please consider this question carefully and respond to the reflector.
George will use these inputs to guide his direction in the next
revision of T10/04-114.  


Robert Snively

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
1745 Technology Drive
San Jose, CA 95110

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