Main Inclusion Report for irqbalance

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/i/irqbalance, available for all supported architectures amd64/i386/sparc

2. Rationale:

   • Needed to optimize performance on Multi-core, SMP, and Hyperthreaded systems.

3. Security:

   • No CVE entries.

   • No Secunia history.

   • Runs as root, does not open a port, on systems with only one multi-core CPU, the binary terminates after re-arranging irqs once.
   • Source code review:

4. Quality assurance:

   • Package works out of the box without configuration.
   • Package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'.

   • No showstopper Debian bugs.

   • Good maintenance in Debian.

   • New irqbalance version maintained in Debian & Ubuntu by KyleMcMartin.

   • Active upstream.

5. Standards compliance:

   • Meets the FHS, Debian Policy

   • Meets Debian library packaging guide standards.

   • Standard debhelper/cdbs/dbs packaging, standard patch system.

6. Dependencies:

   • All in main.

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