From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joao Martins Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/28] x86/cpu: Sysctl and common infrastructure for levelling context switching Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:35:19 +0000 Message-ID: <56E847D7.1010103@oracle.com> References: <1458056124-8024-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> <1458056124-8024-16-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1458056124-8024-16-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Andrew Cooper Cc: Jan Beulich , Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org CgpPbiAwMy8xNS8yMDE2IDAzOjM1IFBNLCBBbmRyZXcgQ29vcGVyIHdyb3RlOgo+IEEgdG9vbHN0 YWNrIG5lZWRzIHRvIGtub3cgaG93IG11Y2ggY29udHJvbCBYZW4gaGFzIG92ZXIgdGhlIHZpc2li bGUgY3B1aWQKPiB2YWx1ZXMgaW4gUFYgZ3Vlc3RzLiAgUHJvdmlkZSBhbiBleHBsaWNpdCBtZWNo 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