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It might seem silly to have them with, say, a single core on a single processor--but, consider the case where multiple cores (or dies, or even sockets!) are sha
by angersock 9y ago
It might seem silly to have them with, say, a single core on a single processor--but, consider the case where multiple cores (or dies, or even sockets!) are sharing the same main memory.
- iforgotpassword 9y agoWouldn't that be something the os scheduler had to do, since the process doesn't know when it's moving from one CPU to another? So it could be a privileged instruction.