lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <4A440B08.6050006@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:40:56 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	kernel mailz <kernelmailz@...glemail.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slowing down the schedular, How?

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.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ