[openib-general] Sockets Extensions Completed

[Josh England]

Is it the API that is completed, or is there an implementation written
already?

-JE

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:31 -0800, Michael Krause wrote:
>         
> FYI.....The specification can be found at: 
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c050.htm
> 
> Use of this new interface will enable Sockets based applications to
> fully exploit the performance of RDMA interconnects through the SDP
> wire protocol.   This API also provides explicit memory management
> taking some of the guesswork out of this thorny problem which can
> result in some performance loss and implementation complexity within
> the SDP layer.
> 
> Mike 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Extended Sockets API (ES-API), Issue 1.0
> The Extended Sockets API (ES-API) Technical Standard provides
> extensions to the traditional socket API to support improved
> efficiency in network programming. The ES-API includes: synchronous IO
> and control operations on sockets; event queue-based management of
> asynchronous operations; and pre-registering of memory regions that
> will be the subject of IO operations. These facilities are intended to
> support: improved efficiency when dealing with high numbers of socket
> file descriptors; 'zero-copy' transmit and receive operations; and
> improved buffer management. The ES-API also includes routines that
> provide asynchronous IO and control operations, asynchronous operation
> management, and memory registration functions for applications
> manipulating sockets.
> 
> 
> 
> Bibliographic Details
> Consortium Specifications 
> 
> Catalog number C050 
> ISBN 1931624526 
> Jan 2005
> 
> OO. 72 pages. 
> 
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