On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:19:21PM -0600, Kapoor, Pankaj wrote: > Is there any specific reason why the cache invalidation routine is > executed with interrupts disabled? That interrupt disabling in some cache flushes dates back further than CVS history. Seems once uppon a time there was some CPU which didn't like cache flushes with interrupts enabled. This is rather bad for latencies so unless somebody else on this list recalls a good reason I'd like to remove this. Ralf
