RHEA-2016:2873 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Enterprise MRG Realtime packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5.

Description

MRG Realtime provides the highest levels of predictability for consistent low-latency response times to meet the needs of time-sensitive workloads. MRG Realtime provides new levels of determinism by optimizing lengthy kernel code paths to ensure that they do not become bottlenecks. This allows for better prioritization of applications, resulting in consistent, predictable response times for high-priority applications.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The contents of the rt-firmware package have been updated to provide current firmware files from the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (BZ#1353265)

Users of the real-time capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5, which is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, are advised to upgrade to these updated packages which add this enhancement.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• MRG Realtime 2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1353265 - update rt-firmware for MRG-2.5.x

CVEs

(none)

References

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