The following functions are defined:
rsocket
rbind, rlisten, raccept, rconnect
rshutdown, rclose
rrecv, rrecvfrom, rrecvmsg, rread, rreadv
rsend, rsendto, rsendmsg, rwrite, rwritev
rpoll, rselect
rgetpeername, rgetsockname
rsetsockopt, rgetsockopt, rfcntl
Functions take the same parameters as that used for sockets. The follow capabilities and flags are supported at this time:
PF_INET, PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM
SOL_SOCKET - SO_ERROR, SO_KEEPALIVE (flag supported, but ignored), SO_LINGER, SO_OOBINLINE, SO_RCVBUF, SO_REUSEADDR, SO_SNDBUF
IPPROTO_TCP - TCP_NODELAY, TCP_MAXSEG
IPPROTO_IPV6 - IPV6_V6ONLY
MSG_DONTWAIT, MSG_PEEK, O_NONBLOCK
Rsockets provides extensions beyond normal socket routines that allow for direct placement of data into an application's buffer. This is also known as zero-copy support, since data is sent and received directly, bypassing copies into network controlled buffers. The following calls and options support direct data placement.
riomap, riounmap, riowrite
In order to enable the use of remote IO mapping calls on an rsocket, an application must set the number of IO mappings that are available to the remote peer. This may be done using the rsetsockopt RDMA_IOMAPSIZE option. By default, an rsocket does not support remote IO mappings. riounmap
riowrite
In addition to standard socket options, rsockets supports options specific to RDMA devices and protocols. These options are accessible through rsetsockopt using SOL_RDMA option level.
Note that rsockets fd's cannot be passed into non-rsocket calls. For applications which must mix rsocket fd's with standard socket fd's or opened files, rpoll and rselect support polling both rsockets and normal fd's.
Existing applications can make use of rsockets through the use of a preload library. Because rsockets implements an end-to-end protocol, both sides of a connection must use rsockets. The rdma_cm library provides such a preload library, librspreload. To reduce the chance of the preload library intercepting calls without the user's explicit knowledge, the librspreload library is installed into %libdir%/rsocket subdirectory.
The preload library can be used by setting LD_PRELOAD when running. Note that not all applications will work with rsockets. Support is limited based on the socket options used by the application. Support for fork() is limited, but available. To use rsockets with the preload library for applications that call fork, users must set the environment variable RDMAV_FORK_SAFE=1 on both the client and server side of the connection. In general, fork is supportable for server applications that accept a connection, then fork off a process to handle the new connection.
rsockets uses configuration files that give an administrator control over the default settings used by rsockets. Use files under /etc/rdma/rsocket as shown:
mem_default - default size of receive buffer(s)
wmem_default - default size of send buffer(s)
sqsize_default - default size of send queue
rqsize_default - default size of receive queue
inline_default - default size of inline data
iomap_size - default size of remote iomapping table
polling_time - default number of microseconds to poll for data before waiting
wake_up_interval - maximum number of milliseconds to block in poll. This value is used to safe guard against potential application hangs in rpoll().
All configuration files should contain a single integer value. Values may be set by issuing a command similar to the following example.
echo 1000000 > /etc/rdma/rsocket/mem_default
If configuration files are not available, rsockets uses internal defaults. Applications can override default values programmatically through the rsetsockopt routine.