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

[Sudeep Dutt]

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.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

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