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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• COOLING5d [PATCH v6 00/24] netfs: Keep track of folios in a segmented bio_vec[] chain
  2026-07-16 10:33 · 1 reply in 7d · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on ceph-devel (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING5d [PATCH v6 21/24] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH v5 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-06 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] ceph: make nearfull sync writes opt-in
  2026-07-06 · Alex Markuze <amarkuze@redhat.com>
• COLD35d [PATCH v4 26/30] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD43d [PATCH v3 19/22] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v2 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE98d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE119d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE181d [PATCH v2 01/31] Documentation: document EXPORT_OP_NOLOCKS
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE138d [PATCH 23/24] filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
  2026-01-08 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE230d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RESEND v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-12-01 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE244d [PATCH v3 01/21] lib/vsprintf: Add specifier for printing struct timespec64
  2025-11-13 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE251d [PATCH v2 01/21] lib/vsprintf: Add specifier for printing struct timespec64
  2025-11-11 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE252d [PATCH v1 01/23] lib/vsprintf: Add specifier for printing struct timespec64
  2025-11-10 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v3] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-10 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE254d [PATCH v2] vfs: remove the excl argument from the ->create() inode_operation
  2025-11-07 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE274d [PATCH v7 05/14] Manual conversion to use ->i_state accessors of all places not covered by coccinelle
  2025-10-09 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE287d [PATCH v6 3/4] Manual conversion of ->i_state uses
  2025-09-23 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE302d [PATCH v5 3/4] Manual conversion of ->i_state uses
  2025-09-19 · Mateusz Guzik <hidden>
• STALE146d [PATCH 10/11] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE146d [PATCH 08/11] VFS: allow d_splice_alias() and d_add() to work on hashed dentries.
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE181d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v2 02/31] exportfs: add new EXPORT_OP_STABLE_HANDLES flag
  2026-01-19 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE119d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE117d [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS.
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm()
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2026-03-12 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE98d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>