invalidate TLB instruction on x86

From: Xin Tong
Date: Thu Mar 01 2012 - 16:57:54 EST

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If a x86 processor modifies the page table of a running program, it
needs to issue the InvlPg instruction to invalidate the TLB in this
processor. what about TLBs in other processors. are they modified. if
they do, how ?

Thanks

Xin
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