Remote direct memory access socket aggregation

A computer program product for providing remote direct memory access communication comprising:

• a tangible, computer-readable storage memory device;
• first program instructions for, at a first data processing system, intercepting a plurality of concurrent application socket messages prior to transmission a common application socket destination, each intercepted message having a payload;
• second program instructions for, still prior to transmission to the common application socket destination, aggregating the payloads of the intercepted concurrent application socket messages into one or more consolidated payloads of one or more application socket messages;
• third program instructions for notifying the common application socket destination of the aggregation and multiplexing information using an out-of-band communication;
• and
• fourth program instructions for transmitting to the common application socket destination the one or more consolidated payloads in the one or more application socket messages on fewer sockets than the plurality of intercepted application socket messages, wherein a ratio of payload to protocol overhead byte utilization is increased compared to the same ratio for the plurality of intercepted messages;
• wherein the program instructions for intercepting and aggregating are performed in a communications stack at a level compliant with Open Systems Interface level 5 session level;
• and
• wherein the first, second, third and fourth program instructions are stored by the tangible, computer-readable storage memory device.