Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] iscsi: add support for iSCSI NOPs

2012-12-05 Thread Peter Lieven
All, please ignore this patch. During testing we found a problem in live usage. We will resubmit once this is fixed. Peter Am 04.12.2012 um 06:03 schrieb ronnie sahlberg: Acked-By: ronniesahlb...@gmail.com (Ronnie Sahlberg) This verified that the service is actually operational and is

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] iscsi: add support for iSCSI NOPs

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Lieven
This patch will send NOP-Out PDUs every 5 seconds to the iSCSI target. If a consecutive number of NOP-In replies fail a reconnect is initiated. iSCSI NOPs help to ensure that the connection to the target is still operational. This should not, but in reality may be the case even if the TCP

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] iscsi: add support for iSCSI NOPs

2012-12-03 Thread ronnie sahlberg
Acked-By: ronniesahlb...@gmail.com (Ronnie Sahlberg) This verified that the service is actually operational and is much more reliable than TCP-KEEPALIVES. This is the proper way to monitor that the iscsi target is alive. We should as a later patch add the ability to configure this via the qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] iscsi: add support for iSCSI NOPs

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Lieven
On 04.12.2012 06:03, ronnie sahlberg wrote: Acked-By: ronniesahlb...@gmail.com (Ronnie Sahlberg) This verified that the service is actually operational and is much more reliable than TCP-KEEPALIVES. This is the proper way to monitor that the iscsi target is alive. Yes, especially because (at