From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Ideas Re: [PATCH v14 1/2] vmx: VT-d
 posted-interrupt core logic handling
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:25:25 +0000
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