From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/io: implement 256-bit IO read and write
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:48:19 +0000
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        Ganesh GR <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>,
        "Nirranjan Kirubaharan" <nirranjan@chelsio.com>,
        Indranil Choudhury <indranil@chelsio.com>
To: 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
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