Programming Guide

The goal of this guide is to introduce the reader to the SISCI API, which allows the development of applications exploiting the powerful capabilities of remote memory access interconnects.

• Introduction
  • The SISCI API
  • About this guide
• System aspects
  • Initializing the SISCI environment
  • Virtual device handles
  • Querying information
• Memory segments
  • Managing local segments
  • Managing remote segments
• Accessing memory
  • Mapping a local memory segment into addressable space
  • Mapping a remote memory segment into addressable space
  • Unmapping a mapped memory segment
  • Accessing data within mapped memory segments
  • Remote memory access example
• DMA
  • Creating a DMA queue
  • Removing a DMA queue
  • DMA queues
  • Querying the state of a DMA queue
  • Starting a single DMA transfer
  • Starting multiple DMA transfers
  • Waiting for DMA completion
  • Aborting a DMA queue processing
  • Reusing a DMA queue
  • DMA example
• Interrupts
  • Managing local interrupts
  • Managing remote interrupts
• Advanced features
  • Error checking
  • Flushing buffers
  • Events and callbacks
  • Reflective memory – Multicast
  • Peer to peer transfers – Device to device
• Privileged functions
  • Registering physical memory as a segment
  • Querying the remote address of a mapped SISCI segment
• How to write optimized SISCI code
• Writing drivers with SmartIO
  • Finding and borrowing the device
  • Mapping device BARs
  • Setting up DMA mappings
  • Examples
• SISCI API changes
  • Hardware dependent features
  • SISCI API versions
• Availability
  • Supported operating systems
  • Support for third party OEM hardware