workqueue · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• R Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
• F include/linux/workqueue.h
• F kernel/workqueue.c
• F kernel/workqueue_internal.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING7d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 09/23] workqueue: Use RCU to protect access of HK_TYPE_TIMER cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE84d [PATCH v2 08/12] workqueue, mm: Support dynamic housekeeping mask updates
  2026-04-13 · Qiliang Yuan <hidden>
• STALE161d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE135d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2026-01-01 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE189d [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-12-24 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE197d [PATCH 17/31] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-11-05 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE245d [PATCH 17/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-10-13 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE288d [PATCH 17/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-08-29 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE373d [PATCH 18/27] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-06-20 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE422d [RFC/PATCH] sched: Support moving kthreads into cpuset cgroups
  2025-05-06 · Xi Wang <hidden>
• STALE638d [PATCH v6 3/3] workqueue: Adjust WQ_MAX_ACTIVE from 512 to 2048
  2024-10-08 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE638d [PATCH v6 2/3] workqueue: doc: Add a note saturating the system_wq is not permitted
  2024-10-08 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE639d [PATCH v5 2/3] workqueue: doc: Add a note saturating the system_wq is not permitted
  2024-09-23 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE639d [PATCH v5 3/3] workqueue: Adjust WQ_MAX_ACTIVE from 512 to 2048
  2024-09-23 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE656d [PATCH v4 2/3] workqueue: doc: Add a note saturating the system_wq is not permitted
  2024-09-13 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• STALE656d [PATCH v4 3/3] workqueue: Adjust WQ_MAX_ACTIVE from 512 to 2048
  2024-09-13 · Chen Ridong <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6/6] cpumask: make core headers including cpumask_types.h where possible
  2024-05-28 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE960d [PATCH-cgroup] workqueue: Move workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask() and its helpers inside CONFIG_SYSFS
  2023-11-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE961d [PATCH v4 1/5] workqueue: Make workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask() static
  2023-11-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE961d [PATCH v4 2/5] workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
  2023-11-16 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE966d [PATCH v3 2/5] workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
  2023-11-15 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE966d [PATCH v3 1/5] workqueue: Make workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask() static
  2023-11-15 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE969d [PATCH v2 1/4] workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
  2023-10-25 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE987d [PATCH-cgroup 1/4] workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
  2023-10-13 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE1241d [PATCH 1/2] sched/isolation: Merge individual nohz_full features into a common housekeeping flag
  2023-02-03 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE1813d [RFC PATCH 2/6] workqueue: Decouple HK_FLAG_WQ and HK_FLAG_DOMAIN cpumask fetch
  2021-07-14 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE2582d [RFC v2 4/5] workqueue, cgroup: add test module
  2019-06-05 · Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
• STALE2582d [RFC v2 2/5] workqueue, cgroup: add cgroup-aware workqueues
  2019-06-05 · Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
• STALE2582d [RFC v2 3/5] workqueue, memcontrol: make memcg throttle workqueue workers
  2019-06-05 · Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>

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.

• HOTtoday [PATCH 09/23] workqueue: Use RCU to protect access of HK_TYPE_TIMER cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>