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Old 04-06-2011
HELP!!: CPU resource allocation between kernel modules and user mode process
Hi,all:
I run my program which consists of one kernel module and one user mode process on a dual core server. The problem here is the kernel module consumes 100% of one core while the user mode process only consumes 10% of the other core, is there any solution that I can assign some computing power from the user-mode core to the kernel-mode core, is there any allocation scheme? I knew linux seems to have some system call to allocate CPU between different processes, but not with kernel module.
Thanks very much to reply.
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Old 04-06-2011
If all available CPU isn't being used that generally means the process is waiting for I/O, and "assigning more CPU" to a sleeping process is pretty pointless.

Perhaps your kernel module is having trouble keeping up with the userspace code? What are you actually doing anyway?
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