linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v3 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:13:54 -0700
From:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	sudeep.dutt@...el.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v3 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver

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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