Weird wasting of time between ioctl() and ioctl dispatcher

[Cestonaro, Thilo \(external\)]

Hey,

I'm a developer for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, working on a program which has it's own kernel modules and userland components.
Now cause the program should be released we have done some testing and during this testphase a wierd wasting of time occured
during the call of the ioctl() in the userland component and the actuall entering of the dispatcher function in the module.
It takes 3 min. until the call at last enters my dispatcher. (Debugging output with printf on line before ioctl() and printk as first line in the 
dispatch function points that out). The dispatch function is the ioctl part of the fileoperations struct which defines the module stuff.

The kernel I'm running is the 2.6.16.21-0.8-default of SLED10 (32Bit), but installed on a 64Bit machine.
Can anyone point me to, where I can have a look where the waste of time comes from?

The ioctl itself works fine afterwards, but the whole process is time-critical so the 3 min. do hurt :(.

Ciao Thilo 
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