Issued:
2016-05-10
Updated:
2016-05-10

RHEA-2016:0776 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

irqbalance bug fix update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for irqbalance is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of irqbalance are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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

  • BZ - 1244948 - irqbalance should not place irqs on isolated CPUs
  • BZ - 1273505 - irqbalance service is re-enabled during a package update.

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c
i386
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89d4e7f452164530bbfd34191ba4f89716b064e5e4191b0809b479075630f4bd
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 707d32ac9631025e5d70bf4756f1f1aa8e81b5a29bd7a627e887499525da4699

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c
i386
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89d4e7f452164530bbfd34191ba4f89716b064e5e4191b0809b479075630f4bd
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 707d32ac9631025e5d70bf4756f1f1aa8e81b5a29bd7a627e887499525da4699

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c
i386
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89d4e7f452164530bbfd34191ba4f89716b064e5e4191b0809b479075630f4bd
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 707d32ac9631025e5d70bf4756f1f1aa8e81b5a29bd7a627e887499525da4699

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c
i386
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89d4e7f452164530bbfd34191ba4f89716b064e5e4191b0809b479075630f4bd
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 707d32ac9631025e5d70bf4756f1f1aa8e81b5a29bd7a627e887499525da4699

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
ppc64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 2d3930651279e2d8fc742645235cbf19108be49eada4a9e97f2c6b6a3446c240
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 8f8373a5c866d084147c6a01ef7d24b4cdde5426613aa06ab5656370050538dd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 9a632c28b4f90f8572a7a8eb71d3c5fe4aa2d298c423fa3358e9a01fc80f70e2
x86_64
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b281dee5dc45addce3a3febb6dee970a6105e2174bc5b46b161fa53c8c111964
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 97331e5742f5d504254d8956ddef11ec2ef49bbc854051a35c1b3c844225f84c
i386
irqbalance-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 89d4e7f452164530bbfd34191ba4f89716b064e5e4191b0809b479075630f4bd
irqbalance-debuginfo-1.0.7-8.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 707d32ac9631025e5d70bf4756f1f1aa8e81b5a29bd7a627e887499525da4699

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