Re: [PATCH 00/15] misc: nnpi: New PCIe driver for Intel's NNP-I pcie device

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:10:31AM +0300, Guy Zadicario wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following series is a driver for a new PCIe device from Intel named NNP-I
> (Nirvana Neural Processor for Inference). NNP-I is a PCIe connected compute
> device used for acceleration of AI deep learning inference applications in the
> data-center.
> 
> The reason that this driver should be in the kernel is that it aims to serve
> multiple users and user-space applications which might share the same NNP-I
> card. Workloads from multiple applications can be processed simultanously by
> the NNP-I card if enough compute resources exist.
> 
> Overview of the NNP-I device, driver structure and ABIs used in the driver is in
> patch#1, which adds the info as a document as it might be a useful info for
> anyone trying to understand the driver even past review.
> 
> In order to ease the review process, there will be multiple series for the
> entire driver code. This is the first series, and it implements everything
> necessary to initialize the NNP-I device and allow a user-space inference
> application to use it. Other features, which are mostly related to maintenance,
> device status visibility and error-handling, will be submitted on the next stage.
> 
> A basic user-space library and test application which illustrates the flow of
> an NNP-I inference application can be found here: https://github.com/IntelAI/nnpi-host
> (This series is enough for the test application to run)
> 
> This patchset has gone through internal review inside Intel, the summary of the
> change log from the internal review follows.
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback, questions or comments to this series.
> 
> Changes in v22:

Why is "v22" not in the [PATCH...] part of the subjects here?

And has there really been 21 other series posted to lkml for this?

thanks,

greg k-h