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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:0096 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2014-01-27
Updated:
2014-01-27

RHBA-2014:0096 - Bug Fix Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

irqbalance bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated irqbalance packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the irqbalance daemon did not consider the NUMA node assignment

for an IRQ (interrupt request) for the banned CPU set. Consequently, irqbalance
set the affinity incorrectly when the IRQBALANCE_BANNED_IRQS variable was set to
a single CPU. In addition, IRQs could not be assigned to a node that had no
eligible CPUs. Node assignment has been restricted to nodes that have eligible
CPUs as defined by the unbanned_cpus bitmask, thus fixing the bug. As a result,
irqbalance now sets affinity properly, and IRQs are assigned to the respective
nodes correctly. (BZ#1054591)

  • Prior to this update, the dependency of the irqbalance daemon was set

incorrectly referring to a wrong kernel version. As a consequence, irqbalance
could not balance IRQs on NUMA systems. With this update, the dependency has
been fixed, and IRQs are now balanced correctly on NUMA systems.

Note that users of irqbalance packages have to update kernel to 2.6.32-358.2.1
or later in order to use the irqbalance daemon in correct manner. (BZ#1055574)

Users of irqbalance are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 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 Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.5 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
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1054591 - irqbalance --oneshot not working

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
ppc64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 57bce640add62ad4ef80a902e3b561857c92fbc2325dd93c6dd87d6415f84246
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8da15b51c4fa018bd45ae80de356453b2577cd04630775dc2d28e9b249a302fd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
ppc64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 57bce640add62ad4ef80a902e3b561857c92fbc2325dd93c6dd87d6415f84246
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8da15b51c4fa018bd45ae80de356453b2577cd04630775dc2d28e9b249a302fd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39
i386
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: b992d25811a54a82d6c14029beb31f1ea5d8c3ad91b406bb7ac30f03a3d15a1a
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2792f8e11b6973d724a635f3910258f5751e38e8c08b3bf137d118bc1f2900b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.5

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 73e0fc126295474a254fe672eaf0ca29e2792236c0a406df16b6e2081f9ededb
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5c1dd616a05ad28805933dc21e1265d41609ae869e94840d219191033ee2ba6
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.4-8.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95074500286bc18db1a5303d7252bb9fa0d6aefe38bea1d5281623175cc90a39

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