On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:28:35 -0700 Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 11:16 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:33:07 -0700 > > Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 1. What is the purpose of isns_timeout_fn() ? We send a > > > isns_attr_query() to the iSNS server (every 30 second) on the last > > > defined target and just dump the server's response on the floor. Why do > > > it ? > > > > I can't recall much about it. But I guess if we don't do scn, we need > > to update the info (such as the list of initiators) periodically? > > As I mentioned earlier, we just drop the response on the floor. Only one > reason I can see is that by doing this we are sure that the iSNS server > is alive (we do not do check or do anything if we don't get a response). > > BTW, we do register for SCN (I am looking at why I am _not_ getting a > SCN when a new initiator registers with the iSNS Server after I register > for SCN :). I thought that when I didn't implement SCN yet, if we didn't send a query periodically, MS's iSNS server unregisters our information. But I can't recall. It's fine by me to remove this feature if the code works well without this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
