block layer · Maintained

Maintainers

M Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Paths

F Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
F Documentation/block/
F block/
F drivers/block/
F include/linux/bio.h
F include/linux/blk*
F include/uapi/linux/blk*
F include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
F kernel/trace/blktrace.c
F lib/sbitmap.c

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-07-09
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-09

Recent patches

Most-recent 5 patches in this subsystem on linux-rt-devel, ordered by date desc.

DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v8 1/1] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-07-09 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden>
STALE71d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 1/1] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-05-12 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden>
STALE77d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 1/1] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-05-06 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden>
STALE78d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/1] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-03-03 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden>
STALE160d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-02-13 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <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.

STALE160d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-02-13 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 5 (5M) [PATCH v8 1/1] block/blk-mq: use atomic_t for quiesce_depth to avoid lock contention on RT
2026-07-09 · Ionut Nechita (Wind River) <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by