From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752351AbbBXApM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:45:12 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:36194 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751875AbbBXApK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:45:10 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,634,1418112000"; d="scan'208";a="656168726" Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v3 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver From: Sudeep Dutt To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: sudeep.dutt@intel.com, Arnd Bergmann , Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jiang , Nikhil Rao , Ashutosh Dixit In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:45:11 -0800 Message-ID: <1424738711.4956.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-30.el6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, Sudeep Dutt