From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754762AbbCIQNu (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:13:50 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:51892 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752293AbbCIQNq (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:13:46 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,368,1422950400"; d="scan'208";a="696019149" 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: <1424738711.4956.2.camel@localhost> References: <1424738711.4956.2.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:13:54 -0700 Message-ID: <1425917634.9103.4.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, 2015-02-23 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