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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: kernel mailz <kernelmailz@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slowing down the schedular, How?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:40:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A440B08.6050006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abe8a1fd0906251136t36d78428k90a610fdff987ab6@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/25/2009 12:36 PM, kernel mailz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a SMP linux running on 85xx poweprc. Say on Core 0 and Core 1
> two different processes are running and on both the schedular runs.
> Now for some special case, if one of my process issues a ioctl which
> gets serviced by a kernel module, I wish to slow the schedular on that
> core only. Otherwise the performance will get degraded.
>
> Should I use highest priority tasklet, will it be sufficient or i need
> to do something special
>
> -TZ

Not clear what you mean by "slowing the scheduler" or "performance will 
get degraded". The scheduler is not a process, it runs when something 
triggers it to run.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-25 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 18:36 Slowing down the schedular, How? kernel mailz
2009-06-25 23:40 ` Robert Hancock [this message]

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