RE: we are a SAS Core Design team, about SAS protocol, we have some questions, can you help us？

[Neil Wanamaker]

Formatted message: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_f.htm">HTML-formatted message</a>
Attachment #1: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image001.jpg">image001.jpg</a>
Attachment #2: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image002.jpg">image002.jpg</a>
Attachment #3: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image003.jpg">image003.jpg</a>
Attachment #4: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image004.jpg">image004.jpg</a>
Attachment #5: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image005.jpg">image005.jpg</a>
Attachment #6: <a href="http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=r&f=r1402183_image006.jpg">image006.jpg</a>

Gerry,
I don’t think the words in the spec allow the highlighted statement you
have made, especially as devices supporting TLR are typically SSP devices
that don’t  handle out-of-order data gracefully.
Neil Wanamaker
Neil.wanamaker at pmcs.com
From: owner-t10 at t10.org [mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org] On Behalf Of Gerry Houlder
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:40 AM
To: Ningzuolin; T10 Reflector
Subject: Re: we are a SAS Core Design team, about SAS protocol, we have some
questions, can you help us？
When sending a series of data frames, the target has to wait for an ACK/NAK
balance point before retrying any NAKed frames. In your examples, if the
target has sent frames D0 and D1 and receives a NAK for D0, it must wait for
an ACK or NAK on D1 (balance between frames sent an ACK/ NAKs received)
before a retry of D0 can be attempted.
Once you are retransmitting a data frame, it is best to wait for an ACK on
that frame before resuming transfer of other data frames that have not been
sent yet. If the frame is NAK to many times, the command should be
terminated.
If D1 got an ACK response, then there is no need to retransmit it after
successful transmission of D0.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Ningzuolin
<benber.ning at hisilicon.com> wrote:
we are a SAS Core Design team, about SAS protocol, we have some questions,
can you help us?
Thanks a lot.
The question is descripted as following
[[]]
Section 8.2.6.3.3.4
[[]]
Question1:Can you explain the highlighted text of SAS specification.
When target outstanding send two data frame who belong to the same read10
cmd,initiator response NAK for the first data frame,we don¡¯t know whether
target need to wait the second data frame¡¯s ACK/NAK(ACK/NAK
balanced),before retransmitting the second data frame.
Because of initiator will response ACK or NAK one by one.When target send
read data frame outstanding,we thought that target should decide to
retransmit d0 or not after receiving all outstanding data frames¡¯
ACK/NAK,otherwise target received ACK/NAK will exceed and couldn¡¯t get
balanced.We don¡¯t know whether we are right.
If target don¡¯t need to wait ACK/NAK balanced,can you tell us how the
initiator process the second data frame.
For example,one read10 command have two data frame d0 and d1.
The scenario is described as the followed figures,the relationship of the
DATA frame and ACK/NAK	we thought is the blue arrow.	      The red arrow
stand for that arrows poit to frame must be send after received the
response(ACK/NAK) ate the start of the arrow.The d0(r) stand for retransmit
d0 data frame.
Can you help us to point outthis figure is right or wrong?
Figureg1:
[retransmit1]
Target send d0 and d1 outstanding .While target received the first NAK,we
thought it belong to the d0,and retransmit d0(r) and d1(r)
Question2:received the second NAK target should think it belong to d1 or
d0(r)?
Question3:while d0¡¯s response is NAK,whether initiator could don¡¯t
response NAK/ACK for d1?
Question4:while retransmit d1,whether need to wait until receiving d0(r)¡¯s
ACK?
Question5:when received the first NAK which belong to d0,target will
retransmit d0 and d1.If received the second response is NAK,which belong to
d1,whether need to retransmit d0 and d1 again?
Figure2:
[retransmit2]
While received the third NAK/ACK,target should think it belong the d0(r),and
retransmit d0 and d1.
Question6:Before sending d1(r),whether need to wait receiving d0(r)¡¯s
response?
Figure3:
[retransmit4]
Question7:Before retransmit d1(r),target received d0(r)¡¯s NAK,target
should retransmit d0 stand for d1?
[retransmit3]
Question8:If target received d0(r)¡¯s response is ACK,d1(r)¡¯s response
is NAK, target should retransmit d1 only?
宁佐林 (Benber)
TEL: (86)0755-28426953	FAX: (86)0755-28426972
深圳市龙岗区布吉坂田华为基地华电D3
海思管道处理器及平台开发部
D3 Building Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Bantian, Longgang District Shenzhen
本邮件及其附件含有华为公司的保密信息，仅限于发送给ä¸
Šé¢åœ°å€ä¸­åˆ—出的个人或群组。禁止任何其他人以任何形式ä
½¿ç”¨ï¼ˆåŒ…括但不限于全部或部分地泄露、复制、或散发）本
邮件中的信息。如果您错收了本邮件，请您立即电话或邮ä»
¶é€šçŸ¥å‘ä»¶äººå¹¶åˆ é™¤æœ¬é‚®ä»¶ï¼
This e-mail and its attachments contain confidential information from HUAWEI,
which is intended only for the person or entity whose address is listed
above. Any use of the information contained herein in any way (including, but
not limited to, total or partial disclosure, reproduction, or dissemination)
by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited. If you receive
this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by phone or email immediately
and delete it!