Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v4 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver

From: Sudeep Dutt
Date: Wed Apr 29 2015 - 08:43:27 EST


On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 13:27 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:45:12PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 18:36 -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > > ChangeLog:
> > > =========
> > >
> > > v3 => v4:
> > > a) Delete unused IOCTL definitions and IOCTL interface fixes as per
> > > feedback from Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > b) Couple of tiny bug fixes since v3
> > >
> > > v2 => v3 @ https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/26/849
> > > a) Formatting fixes for SCIF header file documentation, data type fixes
> > > for SCIF IOCTL interface and added SCIF user space documentation in
> > > scif_overview.txt as per feedback from Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > >
> > > v1 => v2 @ https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/12/1029
> > > a) Use kernel-doc formatting for SCIF header file documentation, enhance
> > > SCIF ring buffer documentation and formatting cleanup in patch 4 as
> > > per feedback from Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > b) SCIF bug fixes and cleanups since initial post
> > >
> > > v1: Initial post @ https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/10/546
> > >
> > > Description:
> > > ============
> > >
> > > The Symmetric Communication Interface (SCIF (pronounced as skiff)) is a low
> > > level communications API across PCIe currently implemented for MIC. Currently
> > > SCIF provides inter-node communication within a single host platform, where a
> > > node is a MIC Coprocessor or Xeon based host. SCIF abstracts the details of
> > > communicating over the PCIe bus while providing an API that is symmetric
> > > across all the nodes in the PCIe network. An important design objective for SCIF
> > > is to deliver the maximum possible performance given the communication
> > > abilities of the hardware. SCIF has been used to implement an offload compiler
> > > runtime and OFED support for MPI implementations for MIC coprocessors.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Please take a look at this patch series.
>
> What patch series? I don't have this in my todo queue at all, what
> happened to it?

That is strange indeed since it does show up on the mailing lists :( I
have resent the patch series a few minutes back. Please let me know if
you did not receive it.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

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