How To Install rtirq on Fedora 34

rtirq is Realtime IRQ thread system tuning

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rtirq on Fedora 34.

What is rtirq

Start-up scripts for tuning the realtime scheduling policy and priority of relevant IRQ service threads, featured for a realtime-preempt enabled kernel configuration.

We can use yum or dnf to install rtirq on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtirq.

Install rtirq on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rtirq using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rtirq

Install rtirq on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rtirq using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rtirq

How To Uninstall rtirq on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the rtirq package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rtirq

rtirq Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/pm/sleep.d/05-rtirq
/etc/sysconfig/rtirq
/usr/bin/rtirq
/usr/bin/rtirq-udev
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rtirq.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-rtirq.rules
/usr/share/doc/rtirq
/usr/share/doc/rtirq/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rtirq on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.