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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.