RHBA-2012:0807 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated irqbalance packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The irqbalance packages provide a daemon that evenly distributes interrupt
requests (IRQ) load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.

This update fixes the following bug:

• The irqbalance daemon assigns each interrupt source in the system to a

"class", which represents the type of the device (for example Networking,
Storage or Media). Previously, irqbalance used the IRQ handler names from the
/proc/interrupts file to decide the source class, which caused irqbalance to not
recognize network interrupts correctly. As a consequence, systems using
biosdevname NIC naming did not have their hardware interrupts distributed and
pinned as expected. With this update, the device classification mechanism has
been improved, and so ensures a better interrupts distribution. (BZ#682211)

All users of irqbalance are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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