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• M Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• R Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
• R Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v16 0/9] blk: honor isolcpus configuration
  2026-09-10 16:43 · 1 reply in 7d · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] blk-iocost: BPF struct_ops cost model
  2026-09-10 12:58 · 1 reply in 7d · Tao Cui <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/26] mm/fbatch: drain lru_add_drain() and _all()
  2026-09-09 09:57 · 1 reply in 7d · Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 0/8] blk-iocost: BPF struct_ops cost model
  2026-09-08 10:03 · 1 reply in 7d · Tao Cui <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
  2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-02
• Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Tao Cui <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-23

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH v16 9/9] docs: add managed_irq_strict flag to isolcpus
  2026-09-10 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] docs: cgroup-v2: document io.cost model=<name> binding
  2026-09-10 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 08/26] mm/fbatch: replace mlock_new_folio() by __folio_add_lru(,mlockit)
  2026-09-09 · Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH 8/8] docs: cgroup-v2: document io.cost ctrl=bpf option
  2026-09-08 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 1/1] cdrom: fix brackets
  2026-09-02 · Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 4/4] docs: block: document prio_enable and prio_aging_expire in deadline-iosched
  2026-08-31 · Ye Bin <hidden>
• COOLING8d [v2 for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delays
  2026-08-30 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• COOLING14d [RFC for-next 3/3] Documentation: block: document error injection delays
  2026-08-27 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 08/25] mm/fbatch: replace mlock_new_folio() by __folio_add_lru(,mlockit)
  2026-08-24 · Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-23 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d [PATCH 7/7] Remove folio_launder()
  2026-08-20 · "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v2] docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst
  2026-08-19 · Jenson Johnathon Reggentin <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH] docs: block: fix dead http link in blk-mq.rst
  2026-08-19 · Jenson Johnathon Reggentin <hidden>
• COLD22d [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-18 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD25d [PATCH] Documentation: block: fix the sector 0 error injection example
  2026-08-15 · Md Haris Iqbal <hidden>
• COLD25d [PATCH 13/13] docs: nvme-multipath: Add FC-NVMe marginal state
  2026-08-12 · Jesse Taube <hidden>
• COLD28d [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-11 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD30d [RFC PATCH 11/12] virtio: expose device memory buffer occupancy over debugfs
  2026-08-09 · Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/1] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-06 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• COLD36d [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  2026-08-04 · Yu Kuai <yukuai@kernel.org>
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3] Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
  2026-08-04 · raoxu <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH v2] Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
  2026-08-04 · raoxu <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH v2] zloop: truncate finished zones to zone capacity
  2026-08-04 · raoxu <hidden>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v5 03/16] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-01 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• COLD36d [PATCH v4 03/14] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-07-28 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
• COLD39d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: document io.latency rotational vs non-rotational behavior
  2026-07-28 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• COLD52d [PATCH 6/6] blk-crypto: Update docs for blk-crypto-fallback motivation
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD52d [PATCH 5/6] blk-crypto: Remove unused function blk_crypto_config_supported()
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD52d [PATCH 4/6] fscrypt: Update docs for data path
  2026-07-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COLD55d [PATCH v2 2/2] Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: fix delay_nsec unit in io.latency doc
  2026-07-17 · Tao Cui <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.

• STALE175d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-19 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE170d REVIEWED: 12 (11M) [PATCH 2/2] zloop: forget write cache on force removal
  2026-03-23 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE94d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-08 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE93d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-10 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• STALE90d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 4/4] block: add configurable error injection
  2026-06-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD38d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3] Documentation: block: zloop: clarify capacity alignment
  2026-08-04 · raoxu <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD36d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH 1/1] block: rename bi_bvec_done
  2026-08-06 · Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> · 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.

• STALE184d [PATCH 4/5] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE184d [PATCH 5/5] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-02-27 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE184d [PATCH v2 4/6] zram: update recompression documentation
  2026-03-11 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE184d [PATCH v2 5/6] zram: remove chained recompression
  2026-03-11 · Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
• STALE167d [PATCH 3/8] ublk: enable UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC feature flag
  2026-03-28 · Ming Lei <hidden>
• STALE128d [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: add documentation for dm-inlinecrypt target
  2026-04-30 · Linlin Zhang <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 3/3] mm/swap: route slot free notifications through swap_ops
  2026-06-14 · Jianyue Wu <hidden>
• STALE85d [PATCH 19/19] docs: document discoverable root partitions
  2026-06-15 · Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH v2 06/17] Documentation: fscrypt: Update docs for inlinecrypt
  2026-07-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v19 25/40] dept: add documents for dept
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>