From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joao Martins Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] x86/time: implement tsc as clocksource Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:14:26 +0100 Message-ID: <57E24F72.4000803@oracle.com> References: <1473874670-4986-1-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> <1473874670-4986-3-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> <57DFD678020000780010FEAF@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <57E00E18.8050405@oracle.com> <57E02D85020000780011040B@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <57E0265E.80006@oracle.com> <57E0FDB1020000780011072B@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <57E10C38.1090203@oracle.com> <57E15BE30200007800110AAE@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <57E1610D.4020605@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bme4i-0003QL-CE for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:44:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: 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