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Current version says: "In x86 based systems, an IPI synchronizes the cache and memory management unit (MMU) between processors."
I agree that IPI may be used on some systems for cache coherency, but x86 has (at least for several years) hardware cache coherency protocol (which is software-invisible and doesn't use IPI) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/134.191.232.68|134.191.232.68]] ([[User talk:134.191.232.68|talk]]) 12:19, 14 June 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->