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NAME
rdma_cm - RDMA communication manager.
SYNOPSIS
#include <rdma/rdma_cma.h>
DESCRIPTION
Used to establish communication over RDMA transports.
NOTES
The RDMA CM is a communication manager used to setup reliable, connected and unreliable datagram data
transfers. It provides an RDMA transport neutral interface for establishing connections. The API
concepts are based on sockets, but adapted for queue pair (QP) based semantics: communication must be
over a specific RDMA device, and data transfers are message based.
The RDMA CM can control both the QP and communication management (connection setup / teardown) portions
of an RDMA API, or only the communication management piece. It works in conjunction with the verbs API
defined by the libibverbs library. The libibverbs library provides the underlying interfaces needed to
send and receive data.
The RDMA CM can operate asynchronously or synchronously. The mode of operation is controlled by the user
through the use of the rdma_cm event channel parameter in specific calls. If an event channel is
provided, an rdma_cm identifier will report its event data (results of connecting, for example), on that
channel. If a channel is not provided, then all rdma_cm operations for the selected rdma_cm identifier
will block until they complete.
RDMA VERBS
The rdma_cm supports the full range of verbs available through the libibverbs library and interfaces.
However, it also provides wrapper functions for some of the more commonly used verbs funcationality. The
full set of abstracted verb calls are:
rdma_reg_msgs - register an array of buffers for sending and receiving
rdma_reg_read - registers a buffer for RDMA read operations
rdma_reg_write - registers a buffer for RDMA write operations
rdma_dereg_mr - deregisters a memory region
rdma_post_recv - post a buffer to receive a message
rdma_post_send - post a buffer to send a message
rdma_post_read - post an RDMA to read data into a buffer
rdma_post_write - post an RDMA to send data from a buffer
rdma_post_recvv - post a vector of buffers to receive a message
rdma_post_sendv - post a vector of buffers to send a message
rdma_post_readv - post a vector of buffers to receive an RDMA read
rdma_post_writev - post a vector of buffers to send an RDMA write
rdma_post_ud_send - post a buffer to send a message on a UD QP
rdma_get_send_comp - get completion status for a send or RDMA operation
rdma_get_recv_comp - get information about a completed receive
CLIENT OPERATION
This section provides a general overview of the basic operation for the active, or client, side of
communication. This flow assume asynchronous operation with low level call details shown. For
synchronous operation, calls to rdma_create_event_channel, rdma_get_cm_event, rdma_ack_cm_event, and
rdma_destroy_event_channel would be eliminated. Abstracted calls, such as rdma_create_ep encapsulate
several of these calls under a single API. Users may also refer to the example applications for code
samples. A general connection flow would be:
rdma_getaddrinfo
retrieve address information of the destination
rdma_create_event_channel
create channel to receive events
rdma_create_id
allocate an rdma_cm_id, this is conceptually similar to a socket
rdma_resolve_addr
obtain a local RDMA device to reach the remote address
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_RESOLVED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
rdma_create_qp
allocate a QP for the communication
rdma_resolve_route
determine the route to the remote address
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_RESOLVED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
rdma_connect
connect to the remote server
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ESTABLISHED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
Perform data transfers over connection
rdma_disconnect
tear-down connection
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
rdma_destroy_qp
destroy the QP
rdma_destroy_id
release the rdma_cm_id
rdma_destroy_event_channel
release the event channel
An almost identical process is used to setup unreliable datagram (UD) communication between nodes. No
actual connection is formed between QPs however, so disconnection is not needed.
Although this example shows the client initiating the disconnect, either side of a connection may
initiate the disconnect.
SERVER OPERATION
This section provides a general overview of the basic operation for the passive, or server, side of
communication. A general connection flow would be:
rdma_create_event_channel
create channel to receive events
rdma_create_id
allocate an rdma_cm_id, this is conceptually similar to a socket
rdma_bind_addr
set the local port number to listen on
rdma_listen
begin listening for connection requests
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_CONNECT_REQUEST event with a new rdma_cm_id
rdma_create_qp
allocate a QP for the communication on the new rdma_cm_id
rdma_accept
accept the connection request
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ESTABLISHED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
Perform data transfers over connection
rdma_get_cm_event
wait for RDMA_CM_EVENT_DISCONNECTED event
rdma_ack_cm_event
ack event
rdma_disconnect
tear-down connection
rdma_destroy_qp
destroy the QP
rdma_destroy_id
release the connected rdma_cm_id
rdma_destroy_id
release the listening rdma_cm_id
rdma_destroy_event_channel
release the event channel
RETURN CODES
= 0 success
= -1 error - see errno for more details
Most librdmacm functions return 0 to indicate success, and a -1 return value to indicate failure. If a
function operates asynchronously, a return value of 0 means that the operation was successfully started.
The operation could still complete in error; users should check the status of the related event. If the
return value is -1, then errno will contain additional information regarding the reason for the failure.
Prior versions of the library would return -errno and not set errno for some cases related to ENOMEM,
ENODEV, ENODATA, EINVAL, and EADDRNOTAVAIL codes. Applications that want to check these codes and have
compatibility with prior library versions must manually set errno to the negative of the return code if
it is < -1.
SEE ALSO
rdma_accept(3), rdma_ack_cm_event(3), rdma_bind_addr(3), rdma_connect(3), rdma_create_ep(3),
rdma_create_event_channel(3), rdma_create_id(3), rdma_create_qp(3), rdma_dereg_mr(3), rdma_destroy_ep(3),
rdma_destroy_event_channel(3), rdma_destroy_id(3), rdma_destroy_qp(3), rdma_disconnect(3),
rdma_event_str(3), rdma_free_devices(3), rdma_getaddrinfo(3), rdma_get_cm_event(3), rdma_get_devices(3),
rdma_get_dst_port(3), rdma_get_local_addr(3), rdma_get_peer_addr(3), rdma_get_recv_comp(3),
rdma_get_request(3), rdma_get_send_comp(3), rdma_get_src_port(3), rdma_join_multicast(3),
rdma_leave_multicast(3), rdma_listen(3), rdma_migrate_id(3), rdma_notify(3), rdma_post_read(3)
rdma_post_readv(3), rdma_post_recv(3), rdma_post_recvv(3), rdma_post_send(3), rdma_post_sendv(3),
rdma_post_ud_send(3), rdma_post_write(3), rdma_post_writev(3), rdma_reg_msgs(3), rdma_reg_read(3),
rdma_reg_write(3), rdma_reject(3), rdma_resolve_addr(3), rdma_resolve_route(3), rdma_set_option(3)
mckey(1), rdma_client(1), rdma_server(1), rping(1), ucmatose(1), udaddy(1)