Computer Science: An Overview: Global Edition (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson Higher Education
ISBN 10: 1292061162
ISBN 13: 978-1-29206-116-0

Chapter 3 - Operating Systems - Chapter Review Problems - Page 165: 39

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It is highly inefficient to disable interrupts on all cores whenever critical region entry is necessary because interrupts make the CPU interrupt what it is doing and immediately attend to the interrupt, so disabling interrupts on all cores would make the system vulnerable to not being able to use interrupts at all.
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