virtio balloon · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• M David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>

Paths

• F drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COLD19d [PATCH v2] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-10 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH splitout] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-06-09 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD24d [PATCH splitout] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-09 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 37/37] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 35/37] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 34/37] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 32/37] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 31/37] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v10 04/37] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-06-08 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 37/37] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 32/37] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 31/37] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 28/37] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 27/37] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v9 04/37] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-29 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 36/37] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 32/37] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 31/37] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 28/37] virtio_balloon: disable indirect descriptors
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 27/37] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v8 04/37] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v7 30/31] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v7 27/31] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v7 26/31] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v7 23/31] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD49d [PATCH v7 03/31] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH resend v6 29/30] virtio_balloon: implement VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEVICE_INIT_ON_INFLATE
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH resend v6 26/30] virtio_balloon: disable reporting zeroed optimization for confidential guests
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH resend v6 25/30] virtio_balloon: skip zeroing for host-zeroed reported pages
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH resend v6 22/30] virtio_balloon: submit reported pages as individual buffers
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.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.

• STALE79d [PATCH RFC 9/9] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-12 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE73d [PATCH RFC v2 15/18] virtio_balloon: add host_zeroes_pages module parameter
  2026-04-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE73d [PATCH RFC v2 18/18] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as pre-zeroed
  2026-04-20 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE68d [PATCH RFC v3 13/19] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-21 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE68d [PATCH RFC v3 19/19] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as zeroed
  2026-04-21 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH RFC v4 18/22] virtio_balloon: a hack to enable host-zeroed page optimization
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH RFC v4 22/22] virtio_balloon: mark deflated pages as zeroed
  2026-04-26 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD55d [PATCH v5 14/28] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-07 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD54d [PATCH v6 16/30] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• COLD52d [PATCH resend v6 16/30] mm: page_reporting: allow driver to set batch capacity
  2026-05-11 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>