Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of remote direct memory access (RDMA) operations. The techniques include but are not limited to unified RDMA operations that are recognizable by various communicating devices, such as network controllers and target memory devices, as requests to establish, set, and/or update arrival indicators in the target memory devices responsive to arrival of one or more portions of the data being communicated.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a memory to store a work queue including work queue entry slots, a processing device to write work queue entries to the work queue in a consecutive and cyclic manner, and a network device including a network interface to share packet over a network, and packet processing circuitry to read the work queue entries from the work queue in a consecutive and cyclic manner, the work queue entries indicating work to be performed associated with the packets, dequeue respective ones of the work queue entries read from the work queue responsively to reading the respective work queue entries from the work queue, add the work queue entries to an execution database used to track execution of the work queue entries, and execute the work queue entries in the execution database.

Abstract: A network adapter includes a network interface, a bus interface, a hardware-implemented data-path and a programmable Data-Plane Accelerator (DPA). The network interface is to communicate with a network. The bus interface is to communicate with an external device over a peripheral bus. The hardware-implemented data-path includes a plurality of packet-processing engines to process data units exchanged between the network and the external device. The DPA is to expose on the peripheral bus a User-Defined Peripheral-bus Device (UDPD), to run user-programmable logic that implements the UDPD, and to process transactions issued from the external device to the UDPD by reusing one or more of the packet-processing engines of the data-path.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of remote direct memory access (RDMA) operations. The techniques include but are not limited to unified RDMA operations that are recognizable by various communicating devices, such as network controllers and target memory devices, as requests to establish, set, and/or update arrival indicators in the target memory devices responsive to arrival of one or more portions of the data being communicated.

Abstract: A system includes a bus interface and circuitry. The bus interface is configured to communicate with an external device over a peripheral bus. The circuitry is configured to support a plurality of widgets that perform primitive operations used in implementing peripheral-bus devices, to receive a user-defined configuration, which specifies a user-defined peripheral-bus device as a configuration of one or more of the widgets, and to implement the user-defined peripheral-bus device toward the external device over the peripheral bus, in accordance with the user-defined configuration.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication apparatus, including a network interface configured to receive over a network a sequence of data packets of a network flow having a defined packet order, wherein the network interface is configured to receive an out-of-order data packet instead of multiple missing data packets according to the defined packet order, a timer, and packet processing circuitry configured to activate the timer responsively to receiving the out-of-order data packet, and set the time period over which the timer is activated responsively to a quantity of the multiple missing data packets.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include a device interface that receives data from at least one data source; a data shuffle unit that collects the data received from the at least one data source, receives a descriptor that describes a data shuffle operation to perform on the data received from the at least one data source, performs the data shuffle operation on the collected data to produce shuffled data, and provides the shuffled data to at least one data target.

Abstract: A method includes providing a plurality of processes interconnected by a network, each of the plurality of processes being configured to hold a block of data destined for others of the plurality of processes. A set of data for all-to-all data exchange is received from one or more of the processes. The set of data is configured as a plurality of blocks of data in a matrix as matrix data, the matrix being distributed among the plurality of processes. The matrix data is transposed by changing the position of selected blocks of data of the plurality of blocks of data relative to the other blocks of data of the plurality of the blocks of data, without changing the structure of each of the blocks of data. The transposed matrix data is over the network and is then received, repacked, and conveyed to destination processes.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication apparatus, including a network interface configured to receive over a network a sequence of data packets of a network flow having a defined packet order, wherein the network interface is configured to receive an out-of-order data packet instead of multiple missing data packets according to the defined packet order, a timer, and packet processing circuitry configured to activate the timer responsively to receiving the out-of-order data packet, and set the time period over which the tinier is activated responsively to a quantity of the multiple missing data packets.

Abstract: A processing device includes an interface and one or more processing circuits. The interface is to connect to a host processor. The one or more processing circuits are to receive from the host processor, via the interface, a notification specifying an operation for execution by the processing device, the operation including (i) multiple tasks that are executable by the network device, and (ii) execution dependencies among the tasks, in response to the notification, to determine a schedule for executing the tasks, the schedule complying with the execution dependencies, and to execute the operation by executing the tasks of the operation in accordance with the schedule.

Abstract: A method in which a plurality of process are configured to hold a block of data destined for other processes, with data repacking circuitry including receiving circuitry configured to receive at least one block of data from a source process of the plurality of processes, the repacking circuitry configured to repack received data in accordance with at least one destination process of the plurality of processes, and sending circuitry configured to send the repacked data to the at least one destination process of the plurality of processes, receiving a set of data for all-to-all data exchange, the set of data being configured as a matrix, the matrix being distributed among the plurality of processes, and transposing the data by each of the plurality of processes sending matrix data from the process to the repacking circuitry, and the repacking circuitry receiving, repacking, and sending the resulting matrix data to destination processes.

Abstract: A network device includes a first interface, a second interface and circuitry. The first interface is configured to communicate at least with a first memory. The second interface is configured to communicate over a network with a peer network device coupled to a second memory. The circuitry is configured to (i) receive a request to transfer data over the network between the first memory and the second memory in accordance with a pattern of offsets to be accessed in the first memory or in the second memory, and (ii) transfer the data in accordance with the request.

Abstract: A network device includes a first interface, a second interface, and circuitry. The first interface is configured to communicate at least with a memory. The second interface is configured to communicate over a network with a peer network device. The circuitry is configured to receive a request to transfer data over the network between the memory and the peer network device in accordance with (i) a pattern of offsets to be accessed in the memory and (ii) a memory key representing a memory space to be accessed using the pattern, and to transfer the data in accordance with the request.

Abstract: A Direct Memory Access (DMA) device includes an interface and a DMA engine. The interface is configured to communicate with a first memory and with a second memory. The DMA engine is configured to (i) receive a request to transfer data between the first memory and the second memory in accordance with a pattern of offsets to be accessed in the first memory or in the second memory, and (ii) transfer the data in accordance with the request.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include circuitry that collects data received from a data source, references a descriptor that describes a data reformat operation to perform on the data received from the data source, reformats the data received from the data source according to the data reformat operation, and provides the reformatted data to the data target via the second device interface.

Abstract: A cross-network bridging apparatus includes a bus interface and bridging circuitry. The bus interface is configured for connecting to a system bus. The bridging circuitry is configured to translate between (i) system-bus transactions that are exchanged between one or more local devices that are coupled to the system bus and served by the system bus and one or more remote processors located across a network from the apparatus, and (ii) data units that convey the system-bus transactions, for transmitting and receiving as network packets over the network to and from the remote processors.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of remote direct memory access (RDMA) operations. The techniques include but are not limited to unified RDMA operations that are recognizable by various communicating devices, such as network controllers and target memory devices, as requests to establish, set, and/or update arrival indicators in the target memory devices responsive to arrival of one or more portions of the data being communicated.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for message signaled interrupt (MSI-X) tunneling on a host device exposed by a bridge connection are described. A device may receive data and a first interrupt signal from a remote destination over a network protocol. The device may receive the data and/or the first interrupt signal over the bridge connection, via a tunneled communication from the remote destination. The device may generate a second interrupt signal based on the first interrupt signal and a local interrupt configuration provided by a system bus driver of the device. The device may inject the data and the second interrupt signal over the system bus. Injecting the data and injecting the second interrupt signal may include ensuring the data is made available to the system bus driver, prior to the interrupt handler receiving the second interrupt signal.

Abstract: A network device in a communication network includes a controller and processing circuitry. The controller is configured to manage execution of an operation whose execution depends on inputs from a group of one or more work-request initiators. The processing circuitry is configured to read one or more values, which are set by the work-request initiators in one or more memory locations that are accessible to the work-request initiators and to the network device, and to trigger execution of the operation in response to verifying that the one or more values read from the one or more memory locations indicate that the work-request initiators in the group have provided the respective inputs.

Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more ports for connecting to a communication network, processing circuitry and a message aggregation circuit (MAC). The processing circuitry is configured to communicate messages over the communication network via the one or more ports. The MAC is configured to receive messages, which originate in one or more source processes and are destined to one or more destination processes, to aggregate two or more of the messages that share a common destination into an aggregated message, and to send the aggregated message using the processing circuitry over the communication network.