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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
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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