virtio core · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• M Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>
• M Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
• R Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vdpa
• F Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-vduse
• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/virtio/
• F Documentation/driver-api/virtio/
• F drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
• F drivers/crypto/virtio/
• F drivers/vdpa/
• F drivers/virtio/
• F include/linux/vdpa.h
• F include/linux/virtio*.h
• F include/linux/vringh.h
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_*.h
• F net/vmw_vsock/virtio*
• F tools/virtio/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH v18 00/29] Support VFIO cdev API in DPDK
  2026-09-24 16:16 · 5 replies in 7d · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [RFC 00/32] remove rte_smp barrier functions
  2026-09-20 18:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/ifc: fix argument parsing
  2026-09-18 16:51 · 0 replies in 7d · Bruce Richardson <hidden>

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH v18 20/29] vdpa/mlx5: remove group-related API
  2026-09-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v18 19/29] vdpa/sfc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v18 18/29] vdpa/nfp: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v18 17/29] vdpa/ifc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v18 11/29] vfio: rename API to reflect internal status
  2026-09-24 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v2 13/33] crypto/virtio: update comment reference to rte_smp_rmb
  2026-09-20 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] vdpa/ifc: fix argument parsing
  2026-09-18 · Bruce Richardson <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v8 23/25] vdpa/ifc: replace rte_atomic32 with stdatomic
  2026-09-17 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 3/6] build: use rte_queue.h instead of sys/queue.h
  2026-09-17 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH 58/62] crypto/virtio: use kvargs numeric helpers
  2026-09-14 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH 08/62] vdpa/ifc: use kvargs numeric helpers
  2026-09-14 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH v17 17/26] vdpa/mlx5: remove group-related API
  2026-09-10 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v17 16/26] vdpa/sfc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-10 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v17 15/26] vdpa/nfp: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-10 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v17 14/26] vdpa/ifc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-10 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH v17 08/26] vfio: rename API to reflect internal status
  2026-09-10 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v16 17/26] vdpa/mlx5: remove group-related API
  2026-09-09 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v16 16/26] vdpa/sfc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-09 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v16 15/26] vdpa/nfp: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-09 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v16 14/26] vdpa/ifc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-09 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v16 08/26] vfio: rename API to reflect internal status
  2026-09-09 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC v4 5/5] interrupts: warn on leaked file descriptors
  2026-09-08 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC v4 1/5] vdpa/mlx5: fix check on err interrupt FD
  2026-09-08 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC v3 5/5] interrupts: warn on leaked file descriptors
  2026-09-07 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COLD18d [RFC v3 1/5] vdpa/mlx5: fix check on err interrupt FD
  2026-09-07 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v15 16/25] vdpa/mlx5: remove group-related API
  2026-09-01 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v15 15/25] vdpa/sfc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-01 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v15 14/25] vdpa/nfp: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-01 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v15 13/25] vdpa/ifc: use container device assignment API
  2026-09-01 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH v15 07/25] vfio: rename API to reflect internal status
  2026-09-01 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>

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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 1/2] common/mlx5: fix doorbell race from compiler reordering
  2026-03-22 · Shani Peretz <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] drivers: update relaxed ordering policy for mlx5 mkeys
  2026-06-16 · Maayan Kashani <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] drivers: update relaxed ordering policy for mlx5 mkeys
  2026-06-17 · Maayan Kashani <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] drivers: update relaxed ordering policy for mlx5 mkeys
  2026-06-22 · Maayan Kashani <hidden> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] crypto/virtio: cookies are allocated from mempool
  2026-07-06 · Radu Nicolau <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE70d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) Re: [PATCH v2] crypto/virtio: cookies are allocated from mempool
  2026-07-15 · Ji, Kai <hidden> · 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-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.

• COOLING4d [PATCH v3 25/27] vdpa/ifc: replace rte_atomic32 with stdatomic
  2026-05-23 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v4 25/27] vdpa/ifc: replace rte_atomic32 with stdatomic
  2026-05-26 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• STALE105d [PATCH v8 07/18] vdpa/ifc: use container device assignment API
  2026-06-11 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE105d [PATCH v8 08/18] vdpa/nfp: use container device assignment API
  2026-06-11 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE105d [PATCH v8 09/18] vdpa/sfc: use container device assignment API
  2026-06-11 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• STALE105d [PATCH v8 10/18] vhost: remove group-related API from drivers
  2026-06-11 · Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v5 22/24] vdpa/ifc: replace rte_atomic32 with stdatomic
  2026-06-20 · Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
• STALE92d [PATCH v4 04/12] vdpa/nfp: fix double PCI unmap on unplug
  2026-06-24 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COLD60d [RFC 2/4] vdpa/mlx5: fix check on err interrupt FD
  2026-07-23 · David Marchand <hidden>
• COLD60d [RFC 4/4] interrupts: close interrupt FDs
  2026-07-23 · David Marchand <hidden>