Method for controlling and/or regulating the operation of an internal combustion engine, especially an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, especially at least partly operating according to the Miller method, wherein a plurality of different target load points (LP soll) and/or different actual load points (LP ist) of the internal combustion engine can be set, in particular by means of an appropriate accelerator pedal actuation, wherein, in the event of an increase in the load of the internal combustion engine, beginning from at least one specific activated lower first target load point (LP soll) and/or starting from a first actual load point (LP ist1) implemented at the first target load point (LP soll), a specific higher second target load point (LP soll2) - as compared with the first target load point (LP soll1) and/or compared with the actual load point (LP ist) - is set, wherein the relative position or positioning of an inlet camshaft relative to a crankshaft for the control of inlet valves can be displaced and/or adjusted, in particular the respective control of the inlet valves from advanced to retarded (or vice versa) can be implemented via the relative position of the inlet camshaft, wherein the respective specific relative positions of the inlet camshaft relative to the crankshaft are defined and/or controlled with the aid of control manipulated values of the engine control unit for the control of the inlet valves between the manipulated value 1 for retarded and the manipulated value 0 for advanced, and wherein, at least for a specific control time period for the implementation of the increase in load, namely at least between the point in time of the start of the target increase in load (t 1) until the point in time of the end of the actual increase in load (t 4) corresponding to the target increase in load, a specific control manipulated variable curve (RS Verlauf) and/or specific control manipulated values for controlling the relative position of the inlet camshaft is or are stored, wherein, at least for the specific control time period, a limiting control manipulated value curve (GRS Verlauf) is determined and/or specific limiting control manipulated values are defined and/or calculated, wherein, at specific respective points in time within the control time period, the respective control manipulated values are then compared with the respective limiting control manipulated values, wherein the respective lower manipulated value is then used to control the relative position of the inlet camshaft, wherein, within the control time period, for a plurality of specific respective actual load points (LP ist), respective specific steady-state limiting control manipulated values (GRS stationär) are defined and/or, for the control time period, a steady-state limiting control manipulated value curve (GRS Verlaufstationär) is determined and/or defined, wherein, by using the respective determined steady-state limiting control manipulated values (GRS stationär), depending on combustion chamber heating (T BRC), dynamic limiting control manipulated values (GRS dynamisch) are determined and/or calculated, and/or, from the steady-state limiting control manipulated value curve (GRS Verlaufstationär), depending on a curve of combustion chamber heating (T BRC), a dynamic limiting control manipulated value curve (GRS Verlaufdynamisch) is determined and/or calculated, and wherein the respective dynamic limiting control manipulated values (GRS dynamisch) and/or the dynamic limiting control manipulated values (GRS dynamisch) resulting from the dynamic limiting control manipulated value curve (GRS Verlaufdynamisch) are used as respective limiting control manipulated values during the control and the comparison.