From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Ostrovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND RFC 0/8] Memory scrubbing from idle loop Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:06:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3380b1a4-fdef-0b65-8f1f-afce8a9c16a4@oracle.com> References: <1488155829-2956-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> <84e34031-2459-1973-2860-18586f9829bd@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <84e34031-2459-1973-2860-18586f9829bd@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Andrew Cooper , xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com, George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, tim@xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cj4+IFRoaXMgc2VyaWVzIGFkZHMgc3VwcG9ydCBmb3Igc2NydWJiaW5nIHJlbGVhc2VkIHBhZ2Vz 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