Recommended update for irqbalance

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:0962-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for irqbalance fixes the following issues:

  • Correctly detect the NUMA node of non-PCI devices. (bsc#1156315, bsc#1183157)
  • Fix ambiguous parsing of node entries in /sys. (bsc#1156315, bsc#1182254) Due to a bug in irqbalance's parsing of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/node* entries, all CPUs were considered to be on NUMA node 0.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-962=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-962=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64)
    • irqbalance-debugsource-1.4.0-12.3.1
    • irqbalance-1.4.0-12.3.1
    • irqbalance-debuginfo-1.4.0-12.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • irqbalance-debugsource-1.4.0-12.3.1
    • irqbalance-1.4.0-12.3.1
    • irqbalance-debuginfo-1.4.0-12.3.1

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