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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:35:43 +0000
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Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>,
        "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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        "mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "ganeshgr@chelsio.com" <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>,
        "nirranjan@chelsio.com" <nirranjan@chelsio.com>,
        "indranil@chelsio.com" <indranil@chelsio.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
To: 'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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