Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH char-misc-next v3 00/13] misc: mic: SCIF driver | From | Sudeep Dutt <> | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:45:11 -0800 |
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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.
Thanks, Sudeep Dutt
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