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)

• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 00/13] sched, steal_governor: Introduce preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff
  2026-09-09 13:59 · 5 replies in 7d · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH v16 0/9] blk: honor isolcpus configuration
  2026-09-10 16:43 · 2 replies in 7d · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v3 0/3] sched/fair: remove quota/burst write-order dependency
  2026-09-11 09:23 · 1 reply in 7d · Zhe Liu <hidden>
• WARM2d [PATCH 00/39] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
  2026-09-08 20:15 · 3 replies in 7d · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 0/4] sched/numa: Add per-process automatic NUMA balancing control
  2026-09-08 12:25 · 1 reply in 7d · Li Zhe <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Tao Cui <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Martin K. Petersen <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-10
• Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-10

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/3] sched/fair: remove quota/burst write-order dependency
  2026-09-11 · Zhe Liu <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH v16 5/9] isolation: Introduce managed_irq_strict isolcpus type
  2026-09-10 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v16 4/9] sched/isolation: Prevent out-of-bounds read in isolcpus= boot parameter parser
  2026-09-10 · Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 09/13] sched/debug: Add migration stats due to non preferred CPUs
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 08/13] sched/core: Push current task from non preferred CPU
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 07/13] sched/fair: Load balance only among preferred CPUs
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 06/13] sched/core: Try to use a preferred CPU in is_cpu_allowed
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v13 04/13] cpumask: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask
  2026-09-09 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH 27/39] mm: rename is_vm_hugetlb_page() to vma_is_hugetlb()
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 26/39] mm: remove hugetlb_inline.h
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH 25/39] mm: remove VMA_IO_BIT check in vma[_flags]_is_kernel_owned()
  2026-09-08 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING5d [PATCH 1/4] sched/numa: Track per-process automatic NUMA balancing mode
  2026-09-08 · Li Zhe <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Remove the write-order dependency between cpu.max and cpu.max.burst
  2026-09-04 · Zhe Liu <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v12 09/13] sched/debug: Add migration stats due to non preferred CPUs
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v12 08/13] sched/core: Push current task from non preferred CPU
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v12 07/13] sched/fair: Load balance only among preferred CPUs
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v12 06/13] sched/core: Try to use a preferred CPU in is_cpu_allowed
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v12 04/13] cpumask: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask
  2026-09-03 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH RFC v3 1/8] kcov: add per-task dataflow tracking for function arguments/return values
  2026-09-02 · Yunseong Kim <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH v11 05/12] sched/core: Try to use a preferred CPU in is_cpu_allowed
  2026-09-02 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [RFC PATCH 2/2] sched/wait: Clarify WF_SYNC wakeup semantics
  2026-08-26 · Shubhang Kaushik (Ampere) <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v11 07/12] sched/core: Push current task from non preferred CPU
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v11 08/12] sched/debug: Add migration stats due to non preferred CPUs
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v11 06/12] sched/fair: Load balance only among preferred CPUs
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v11 05/12] sched/core: Try to use a preferred CPU in is_cpu_allowed
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v11 03/12] cpumask: Introduce cpu_preferred_mask
  2026-08-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Reset incompatible burst on quota change
  2026-08-20 · Zhe Liu <hidden>
• COLD17d Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] sched, steal_governor: Introduce preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff
  2026-08-17 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
• COLD30d [PATCH v2 2/2] sched_ext: fix stale references in doc comments
  2026-08-13 · Tao Cui <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH v10 08/12] sched/debug: Add migration stats due to non preferred CPUs
  2026-08-12 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.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.

• STALE115d [PATCH v2 07/25] kernel/fork: Annotate static information into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE115d [PATCH v2 17/25] sched/core: Annotate runqueues into meminspect
  2026-03-10 · Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
• STALE144d [PATCH v2 08/16] x86/resctrl: Add per-CPU and per-task kernel mode state
  2026-03-12 · Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
• STALE139d [RFC, PATCH 07/12] sched/numa: skip scanning anonymous VM_UFFD_MINOR VMAs
  2026-04-14 · "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
• STALE67d [PATCH 01/23] sched/isolation: Add HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE_BOOT & HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ_BOOT
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 01/13] sched/isolation: Replace notifier chain with explicit callback interface
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 02/13] sched/isolation: Add housekeeping_update_types() for kernel-noise masks
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 03/13] sched/isolation: RCU-protect all housekeeping cpumask readers
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• STALE82d [PATCH v3 04/13] sched/isolation: Fix RCU protection for runtime-mutable cpumask callers
  2026-06-18 · Jing Wu <hidden>
• STALE75d [PATCH v5 08/24] sched/fair: load balance only among preferred CPUs
  2026-06-25 · Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>