From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Meng Xu Subject: Re: Question about sharing spinlock_t among VMs in Xen Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:28:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <57602A42.7070608@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bDCkR-0001iR-4e for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:28:55 +0000 Received: by mail-vk0-f66.google.com with SMTP id a126so3887288vkb.1 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:28:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <57602A42.7070608@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: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org T24gVHVlLCBKdW4gMTQsIDIwMTYgYXQgMTI6MDEgUE0sIEFuZHJldyBDb29wZXIKPGFuZHJldy5j 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