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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.6] docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  2026-05-20 11:19 · 0 replies in 7d · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 0/2] cgroup/dmem: allow double-charging dmem allocations to memcg
  2026-05-19 16:00 · 1 reply in 7d · Eric Chanudet <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-04-28
• Xie Maoyi <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-28

Recent patches

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

• [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.6] docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroup/dmem: add dmem.memcg control file for double-charging to memcg
  2026-05-19 · Eric Chanudet <hidden>
• [PATCH v3] cgroup/dmem: introduce a peak file
  2026-05-14 · Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 4/4] cgroup/rdma: document rdma.peak, rdma.events and rdma.events.local
  2026-05-14 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] cgroup/dmem: introduce a peak file
  2026-05-13 · Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 4/4] cgroup/rdma: document rdma.peak, rdma.events and rdma.events.local
  2026-05-13 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 2/5] dma-heap: charge dma-buf memory via explicit memcg
  2026-05-12 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 1/5] memcg: Track exported dma-buffers
  2026-05-12 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0-6.6] docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  2026-05-11 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 3/3] mm/zswap: Add per-memcg stat for proactive writeback
  2026-05-11 · Hao Jia <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/3] mm/zswap: Implement proactive writeback
  2026-05-11 · Hao Jia <hidden>
• [PATCH 2/2] cgroup/dmem: introduce a peak file
  2026-05-06 · Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 01/22] mm/swap: decouple swap cache from physical swap infrastructure
  2026-05-05 · Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
• [PATCH] docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
  2026-04-30 · "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
• [PATCH v2] cgroup/cpuset: Clarify the delegation rules of partition
  2026-04-28 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• [PATCH] Documentation/cgroup-v2: warn about cgroup.kill / cgroup.freeze delegation
  2026-04-28 · Maoyi Xie <hidden>
• [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: Creating or adding CPUs to partition not allowed without privilege
  2026-04-28 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• [PATCH] docs: cgroup: fix typo 'protetion' -> 'protection'
  2026-04-25 · Petr Vaněk <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 3/4] mm: memcontrol: add interfaces for swap tier selection
  2026-04-21 · Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
• [PATCH v6 2/4] mm: swap: associate swap devices with tiers
  2026-04-21 · Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
• [PATCH 23/23] cgroup/cpuset: Documentation and kselftest updates
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• [PATCH 03/23] tick/nohz: Make nohz_full parameter optional
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• [PATCH v2 11/12] Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document dynamic housekeeping (DHM)
  2026-04-13 · Qiliang Yuan <hidden>
• [PATCH RFC 13/13] mm/rmap: support arbitrary folio mappings
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 07/13] mm/rmap: remove CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 06/13] fs/proc/task_mmu: remove CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT handling in smaps_account()
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 04/13] fs/proc/task_mmu: remove CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT handling for PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 03/13] fs/proc/page: remove CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT handling for kpagecount
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 02/13] fs/proc/task_mmu: remove CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT handling for "mapmax"
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RFC 01/13] mm/rmap: remove folio->_nr_pages_mapped
  2026-04-12 · "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>

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.

• [PATCH cgroup/for-6.20 v5 4/5] cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict
  2026-01-12 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] cgroup/cpuset: Don't fail cpuset.cpus change in v2
  2026-02-14 · Sasha Levin <sashal@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.

• [RFC PATCH 3/3] Doc: Update documentation for per-cgroup compression priority
  2025-10-26 · jinji zhong <hidden>
• [PATCH 31/31] doc: Add housekeeping documentation
  2025-11-05 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• [PATCH RESEND 2/3] docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection
  2025-11-10 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• [PATCH RESEND 3/3] docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs
  2025-11-10 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: cgroup: Explain reclaim protection target
  2025-11-14 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• [PATCH v2 2/3] docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection
  2025-11-14 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs
  2025-11-14 · Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
• [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document misc.mask interface
  2025-12-05 · Andrei Vagin <hidden>
• [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors
  2026-01-12 · Nauman Sabir <hidden>
• [RFC PATCH -next 7/7] mm/mglru: remove memcg lru
  2026-01-20 · Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>