Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2015 15:05:26 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH char-misc-next 02/13] misc: mic: SCIF ring buffer infrastructure |
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:47:42AM -0800, Sudeep Dutt wrote: > SCIF ring buffer is a single producer, single consumer byte stream ring > buffer optimized for avoiding reads across the PCIe bus. The ring buffer is > used to implement a receive queue for SCIF driver messaging between nodes and > for byte stream messaging between SCIF endpoints. Each SCIF node has a > receive queue for every other SCIF node, and each connected endpoint has a > receive queue for messages from its peer. This pair of receive queues is > referred to as a SCIF queue pair.
And the reason you aren't using the built-in kernel ring buffer code is why?
You need to document that really well here, or use the in-kernel code please.
thanks,
greg k-h
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