From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/time: implement tsc as
	clocksource
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:47:04 +0100
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