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

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 05:42:00 -0700
From:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	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>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v4 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 13:27 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:45:12PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What patch series?  I don't have this in my todo queue at all, what
> happened to it?

That is strange indeed since it does show up on the mailing lists :( I
have resent the patch series a few minutes back. Please let me know if
you did not receive it.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

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