devloperdevesh / devloperdevesh/FaultPlane

[Feat/Network]: Build RoCE v2 (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) Zero-Copy Network Ingress for Multi-Node State Mirrors

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Dominant language
Go
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Description

Problem

Even with optimized compact binary arrays protocols (such as raw Msgpack allocations pools), replicating context memories blocks across distinct physical computing nodes still forces packets to climb up through the operating system network stack layers, generating high kernel execution overhead and kernel scheduling delay spikes.


Proposed Solution

Develop a high-performance, bare-metal state replication engine inside internal/storage/rdma_sync.go using native RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2) network protocols hooks.

  • Bypass the entire local host operating system network layer and CPU parsing routines during state replication loops.
  • Programmatically map local contiguous memory pools (InMemoryStore buffers) directly to the target remote fallback worker cluster node's physical hardware RAM registers using specialized network interface controller operations.
  • Trigger sub-microsecond asynchronous memory mirrors (RDMA_WRITE actions) that synchronize agent state checkpoints across physical node instances without interrupting the main CPU core pipeline.

Alternatives

  • Standard distributed TCP socket data sync pipelines, which force context allocation footprints to leak to the global runtime heap and consume host processor cycles.

Use Case

Secures non-blocking, near-instant cluster state consistency and fault-tolerant hot-swapping configurations across bare-metal environments with zero CPU scheduling jitter.


Additional Notes

This firms up our advanced hardware research labs strategy. Feature must execute dynamic system validation checks to fall back cleanly to standard eBPF proxies if specialized hardware routes are unavailable.

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading internal/storage/rdma_sync.go and tracing how InMemoryStore buffers are represented and replicated. Check the existing state-sync path and determine how hardware availability would be validated. Done means multi-node state mirrors use the requested RDMA_WRITE path where supported and fall back cleanly to standard eBPF proxies when it is unavailable.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
distributed-systems, networking, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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