openvswitch · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
• M Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
• M Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/networking/openvswitch.rst
• F include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
• F net/openvswitch/
• F tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d [PATCH net-next v7 0/2] selftests: openvswitch: SCTP flow key parsing
  2026-07-29 06:46 · 2 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next v6 0/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-24 15:06 · 2 replies in 7d · Minxi Hou <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-09

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d [PATCH 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-29 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key parsing to ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-07-29 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-24 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH net-next v6 1/2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key parsing to ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-07-24 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-15 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net 2/7] selftests: openvswitch: add config file
  2026-07-10 · "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD17d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-07 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD24d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SCTP flow key test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH net-next v4] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD22d [PATCH net-next v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-07-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-06-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-15 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-06-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add SET action test
  2026-06-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add output truncation test
  2026-06-11 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD49d [PATCH net-next v2] selftests/net/openvswitch: add flow modify test
  2026-06-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net-next] selftests/net/openvswitch: add flow modify test
  2026-06-05 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH net v4] selftests/net/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-04 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v3] selftests/net/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-03 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] selftests/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-02 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH] selftests/openvswitch: guard command substitutions against empty output
  2026-06-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-28 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE63d [PATCH net-next v3] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-27 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE77d [PATCH net-next] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-14 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE72d [RFC net-next 3/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for separate modules
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• STALE72d [RFC net-next 2/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for vport options
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• STALE72d [RFC net-next 1/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel types
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>

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.

• STALE76d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v4] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-28 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests: openvswitch: add dec_ttl action support and test
  2026-05-30 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH net-next v5] selftests/net/openvswitch: add ICMPv6 echo type match test
  2026-07-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden> · 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.

• STALE189d [PATCH 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-20 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE183d [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-01-27 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH net v3 2/6] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-06 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE136d [PATCH net v4 1/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported
  2026-03-09 · Aleksei Oladko <hidden>
• STALE92d [PATCH net 1/2] openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports
  2026-04-29 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• STALE90d [PATCH 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE90d [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-01 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• STALE87d [PATCH net-next v4 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-04 · Minxi Hou <hidden>