Introduction to RDMA: Connection Establishment

1.  Connection Establishment

connection-oriented transports require a connection establishment between the two hosts before the data could be sent.

Problem:  how to exchange information before connection is estbalished

2. Connection Manager

RDMA CM is the connection manager for RDMA. Two of services are address excahnge and a connection establishment

API:

rdma_connect() - connect to the remote server

rdma_accept() - accept the connection request

rdma_bind_addr() - set the local port number to listen on

rdma_listen() - begin listening for connection requests  

rdma_create_qp() - allocate a QP for the communication on the new rdma_cm_id

rdma_post_send() - post a buffer to send a message