[PATCH char-misc-next v4 02/13] misc: mic: SCIF ring buffer infrastructure

2015-04-29 Thread Sudeep Dutt
SCIF ring buffer is a single producer, single consumer byte stream ring buffer optimized for avoiding reads across the PCIe bus while adding the required barriers and hardware workarounds for the MIC Coprocessor. The ring buffer is used to implement a receive queue for SCIF driver messaging between

[PATCH char-misc-next v4 02/13] misc: mic: SCIF ring buffer infrastructure

2015-03-30 Thread Sudeep Dutt
SCIF ring buffer is a single producer, single consumer byte stream ring buffer optimized for avoiding reads across the PCIe bus while adding the required barriers and hardware workarounds for the MIC Coprocessor. The ring buffer is used to implement a receive queue for SCIF driver messaging between