Recently, El Ghami (Optim Theory Decis Mak Oper Res Appl 31:331-349, 2013) proposed a primal dual interior point method for P * (κ)-Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) based on a trigonometric barrier term and obtained the worst case iteration complexity as O (1 + 2κ)n 3 4 log n for large-update methods. In this paper, we present a large update primal-dual interior point algorithm for P * (κ)-LCP based on a new trigonometric kernel function. By a simple analysis, we show that our algorithm based on the new kernel function enjoys the worst case O (1 + 2κ) √ n log n log n iteration bound for solving P * (κ)-LCP. This result improves the worst case iteration bound obtained by El Ghami for P * (κ)-LCP based on trigonometric kernel functions significantly.Keywords Kernel function · P * (κ)-linear complementarity problem · Primal-dual interior point methods · Large-update methods Mathematical Subject Classification (2010) 90C05 · 90C51