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From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Allocate a page at interrupt time
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FreeBSD can not allocate from the PQ_CACHE queue in an interrupt
context. Can anyone explain it to me why this is the case?

Thanks,

-Zhihui


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