scheduler · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
• M Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
• R Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
• R Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
• R Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• R K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/preempt.h
• F include/linux/sched.h
• F include/linux/wait.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sched.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F kernel/sched/
• F tools/sched/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 0/6] sched: Add support for long task name
  2026-09-10 16:50 · 4 replies in 7d · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
  5 attestations (5 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-08-28

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-09-10 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 4/6] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN
  2026-09-10 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 2/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-09-10 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-09-10 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 1/3] fs: Introduce task path helpers
  2026-08-31 · Chen Linxuan <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 6/7] sched/cache: Extend the enabled debugfs to more modes
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 5/7] sched/cache: Allow a process to enable cache aware scheduling via prctl
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 4/7] sched/cache: Add prctl to manage per process cache scheduling groups
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 3/7] sched/cache: Extract sched_cache_alloc_group() helper
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 2/7] sched/cache: Introduce task_struct->sched_cache_grp
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• WARM1d [RFC PATCH 1/7] sched/cache: Decouple sched_cache_group from mm
  2026-08-28 · Tim Chen <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-08-27 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 4/6] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN
  2026-08-27 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 2/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-08-27 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v5 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-08-27 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 4/6] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 13/24] fork: let new tasks start with task work
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 12/24] fork: let kernel callers create embryonic tasks
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 09/24] fork: let process builders supply preallocated pids
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 07/24] fork: expose vfork completion helper
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 6/7] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 5/7] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 3/7] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 1/7] sched: Update get_task_comm() comment
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH v2 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH v2 4/6] sched: Extend task command name to 64 bytes
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.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.

• STALE113d [PATCH 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-05-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH v2 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-05-24 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 1/7] sched: Update get_task_comm() comment
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 2/7] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 5/7] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• STALE90d [PATCH v3 6/7] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
  2026-06-12 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 07/24] fork: expose vfork completion helper
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 09/24] fork: let process builders supply preallocated pids
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COOLING4d [RFC PATCH 13/24] fork: let new tasks start with task work
  2026-07-16 · Li Chen <hidden>
• COLD55d [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm()
  2026-07-17 · André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>