From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joao Martins Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/time: implement tsc as clocksource Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:56:15 +0100 Message-ID: <5703D20F.6080407@oracle.com> References: <1459259051-4943-1-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> <1459259051-4943-4-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com> <5703B30002000078000E320D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5703B30002000078000E320D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Jan Beulich Cc: Andrew Cooper , Keir Fraser , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org T24gMDQvMDUvMjAxNiAxMTo0MyBBTSwgSmFuIEJldWxpY2ggd3JvdGU6Cj4+Pj4gT24gMjkuMDMu MTYgYXQgMTU6NDQsIDxqb2FvLm0ubWFydGluc0BvcmFjbGUuY29tPiB3cm90ZToKPj4gSW50cm9k 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