Overview
The NVIDIA® Messaging Accelerator (VMA) library accelerates latency-sensitive and throughput-demanding TCP and UDP socket-based applications by offloading traffic from the user-space directly to the network interface card (NIC) or Host Channel Adapter (HCA), without going through the kernel and the standard IP stack (kernel-bypass).
VMA leverages the following benefits:
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Implements the legacy POSIX socket interface
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Increases:ThroughputPackets per Second (PPS)Requests per Second (RPS)
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Reduces:Network latencyThe magnitude of network latency spikesContext switches and interruptsNetwork congestionData copying and moving in unicast and multicast applications
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Improves CPU utilization
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Compatible with Ethernet
VMA can work on top of MLNX_OFED driver stack and on a lighter driver stack, MLNX_EN.
Intended Audience
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Market data professionals
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Messaging specialists
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Software engineers and architects
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Systems administrators tasked with installing/uninstalling/maintaining VMA
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ISV partners who want to test/integrate their traffic-consuming/producing applications with VMA
Document Revision History
For the list of changes made to this document, refer to User Manual Revision History.
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