From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/8] x86/hvm,
	libxl: HVM SMT topology support
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:52:43 +0000
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