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SubjectRe: [PATCH char-misc-next 02/13] misc: mic: SCIF ring buffer infrastructure
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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