Extra modules used in Elastic Compute Service of Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Elastic Compute Service

Resolution
The below extra modules used in Elastic Compute Service are provided by Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.

  • hids_driver module is the core kernel component of Bytedance HIDS project. This security module, based on kprobe, tracepoints and other kernel tracing mechanisms, provides tracking and auditing capabilities for key and high-risk operations, such as process creation, file creation, network connections, and privilege escalation etc. And this module is required for RHEL7 & RHEL8 & RHEL9.

  • reset-authentication is used to reset passwords or associate or dissociate key pairs to access ECS cloud instance.

  • blk-none is used to avoid IO hang problems due to low kernel version of the OS in some instance specifications, which is only required for RHEL7
  • irqbalance-ng is used to automatically manage CPU affinity of interrupt requests (IRQs) for network interfaces. This feature helps you improve network performance.
  • adjust-nic-queue is used to enable the multiqueue feature for the primary and secondary network interfaces of an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance

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