Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v3 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver
From: Sudeep Dutt
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 12:13:54 EST
On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:45 -0800, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 16:32 -0800, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > ChangeLog:
> > =========
> >
> > v2 => v3:
> > 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.
>
Hi Greg,
Another gentle reminder for reviewing this patch series. Please let us
know if there is anything we can do, to speed up the review process.
Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt
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