9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
60.9%
The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to version 3.10.0-229.4.1, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version,
including:
(BZ#1209963)
This update also fixes the following bugs:
Prior to this update, heavy lock contention occurred on systems with
greater than 32 cores when large numbers of tasks went idle simultaneously.
Consequently, all the idle CPUs attempted to acquire the run-queue (rq)
lock of a CPU with extra tasks in order to pull those run-able tasks.
This increased scheduler latency due to the lock contention. Instead of
each idle CPU attempting to acquire the run-queue lock, now each idle CPU
will send an IPI to let the overloaded CPU select one core to pull tasks
from it. The result is less spin-lock contention on the rq lock and
produces improved scheduler response time. (BZ#1210924)
The CONFIG_NO_HZ logic enabled/disabled the timer tick every time a CPU
went into an idle state. This timer tick manipulation caused the system
performance (throughput) to suffer. The CONFIG_NO_HZ configuration setting
is now turned off by default, which increases the throughput due to the
lower idle overhead while allowing system administrators to enable it
selectively in their environment. (BZ#1210597)
All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct these issues and add these enhancements. The system must be
rebooted for this update to take effect.