Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Design flaw: Changes don't propagate immediately to other threads in
> the same task running on another processor.  This applies to enable as
> well as disable operations!  Espen Skoglund pointed out that we only
> need to propagate disable operations, enable operations could be picked
> up in the fault handler (for extra performance).

Why is this so?  Why not just suspend the threads around the operation
and then resume them (forcing them to reload processor state)?

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