From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] VT-d: Reduce spin timeout to 1ms,
 which can be boot-time changed
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:06:39 -0400
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