HIGH-PERFORMANCE STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE OFFLOAD

Technology described herein provides an improved system architecture for offloading infrastructure tasks using a multi-root switch with logic to route, via a switch, application data in a data transfer message between a physical storage device and a host system, the host system interfacing with a virtual function of an IPU, by remapping a transaction identifier field in the data transfer message between a first transaction identifier associated with the virtual function and a second transaction identifier associated with the physical storage device, where the physical storage device is managed by the IPU, and where to route the application data between the host system and the physical storage device includes to bypass temporary storage of the application data in a memory local to the IPU. In some examples a remapping table holds the first transaction identifier and the second transaction identifier.