NetworkDirect SPI

The NetworkDirect architecture provides application developers with a networking interface that enables zero-copy data transfers between applications, kernel-bypass I/O generation and completion processing, and one-sided data transfer operations. The NetworkDirect service provider interface (SPI) defines the interface that NetworkDirect providers implement to expose their hardware capabilities to applications.

Please find additional documentation in docs/ folder.

NetworkDirect SDK is available in Nuget also.

Building

Prerequisites

• Visial Studio 2017

  Please make sure to select the following workloads during installation:

  • .NET desktop development (required for CBT/Nuget packages)
  • Desktop development with C++

• Windows SDK

• Windows WDK

Based on the installed VS/SDK/WDK versions, update VCToolsVersion and WindowsTargetPlatformVersion in Directory.Build.props

Note that the build system uses CommonBuildToolSet(CBT). You may need to unblock CBT.core.dll (under .build/CBT) depending on your security configurations. Please refer to CBT documentation for additional details.

Build

To build, open a Native Tools Command Prompt for Visual Studio and run msbuild from root folder.

Contributing

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