control group (cgroup) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• M Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
• M Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/
• F Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
• F include/linux/cgroup*
• F kernel/cgroup/
• F tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] bpf: add bpf_thread_wq kthread-backed workqueue with cgroup placement
  2026-08-07 · Hui Zhu <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD17d [PATCH rdma-next v3 08/14] RDMA/cgroup: Disambiguate devices across net namespaces
  2026-07-16 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• COLD32d [PATCH rdma-next v2 08/14] RDMA/cgroup: Disambiguate devices across net namespaces
  2026-07-14 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• COLD34d [PATCH rdma-next 08/13] RDMA/cgroup: Scope rdma cgroup device visibility to the net namespace
  2026-07-09 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• COLD37d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• COLD47d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COLD39d [PATCH 23/23] cgroup/cpuset: Documentation and kselftest updates
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH 22/23] cgroup/cpuset: Prevent offline_disabled CPUs from being used in isolated partition
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH 21/23] cgroup/cpuset: Limit the side effect of using CPU hotplug on isolated partition
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH 20/23] cgroup/cpuset: Enable runtime update of HK_TYPE_{KERNEL_NOISE,MANAGED_IRQ} cpumasks
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH 19/23] cgroup/cpuset: Improve check for calling housekeeping_update()
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• COLD39d [PATCH 02/23] sched/isolation: Enhance housekeeping_update() to support updating more than one HK cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE125d [RFC PATCH 1/1] netlink: Add Netlink process event for cgroup migration
  2026-04-07 · Prakash Sangappa <hidden>
• STALE158d [PATCH v2 3/3] cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
  2026-03-11 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE158d [PATCH v2 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  2026-03-11 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE158d [PATCH v2 1/3] cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
  2026-03-11 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE165d Re: [PATCH 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  2026-03-02 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE165d [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
  2026-02-28 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE165d [PATCH 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify()
  2026-02-28 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE165d [PATCH 1/3] cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
  2026-02-28 · Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 30/33] kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 21/33] cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated()
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH 19/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to timers through housekeeping
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 3 (2M) [PATCH 14/33] cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH 12/33] cpuset: Provide lockdep check for cpuset lock held
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d REVIEWED: 4 (2M) [PATCH 06/33] cpuset: Convert boot_hk_cpus to use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 30/33] kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes
  2026-01-01 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE174d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH 29/33] sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
  2026-01-01 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE200d [PATCH 12/33] cpuset: Provide lockdep check for cpuset lock held
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE200d [PATCH 19/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to timers through housekeeping
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• COLD32d [PATCH rdma-next v2 08/14] RDMA/cgroup: Disambiguate devices across net namespaces
  2026-07-14 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
• COLD17d [PATCH rdma-next v3 08/14] RDMA/cgroup: Disambiguate devices across net namespaces
  2026-07-16 · Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>