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)

• Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 11:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 11:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 11:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Linux 6.6.141
  2026-05-23 11:46 · 1 reply in 7d · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
  6 attestations (6 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-12
• Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-04-30
• Yuan Tan <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-30
• Yifan Wu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-30
• Juefei Pu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-30
• Xin Liu <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-30
• Yang Yang <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-04-30

Recent patches

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

• Re: Linux 7.0.10
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.18.33
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.12.91
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.6.141
  2026-05-23 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.6.140
  2026-05-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• [PATCH net v2] openvswitch: vport: fix race between linking and the device notifier
  2026-05-14 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• Re: Linux 6.18.30
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.12.88
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 7.0.7
  2026-05-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• [RFC net-next 3/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for separate modules
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• [RFC net-next 2/6] openvswitch: vport: remove infrastructure for vport options
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• [RFC net-next 1/6] openvswitch: remove support for legacy tunnel types
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• [PATCH net-next 5/5] selftests: openvswitch: suppress pylint complexity warnings
  2026-05-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next 4/5] selftests: openvswitch: add missing docstrings in ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-05-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next 3/5] selftests: openvswitch: rename classes and variables in ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-05-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next 2/5] selftests: openvswitch: fix misc pylint warnings in ovs-dpctl.py
  2026-05-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next 1/5] selftests: openvswitch: convert %-formatting to f-strings
  2026-05-13 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net] openvswitch: vport: fix race between linking and the device notifier
  2026-05-13 · Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
• [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v10 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH v10 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-12 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v9 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v9 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-09 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v8 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-08 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v8 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-08 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-07 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v7 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-07 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-06 · Minxi Hou <hidden>
• [PATCH net-next v6 1/2] selftests: openvswitch: add vlan() and encap() flow string parsing
  2026-05-06 · Minxi Hou <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.

• [PATCH net] openvswitch: defer tunnel netdev_put to RCU release
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• [PATCH net] openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
  2026-03-19 · Yang Yang <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• [PATCH v4 net-next] net: use get_random_u{16,32,64}() where appropriate
  2026-04-07 · David Carlier <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• [PATCH net-next v10 2/2] selftests: openvswitch: add pop_vlan test
  2026-05-12 · 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.

• Re: Linux 6.6.118
  2025-12-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.12.60
  2025-12-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.17.10
  2025-12-01 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 5.4.302
  2025-12-03 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 5.10.247
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 5.15.197
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.1.159
  2025-12-06 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.12.63
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.18.2
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• Re: Linux 6.17.13
  2025-12-18 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>