scheduler · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
• M Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
• M Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
• M Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
• R Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
• R Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
• R Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
• R Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
• R Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
• R K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/preempt.h
• F include/linux/sched.h
• F include/linux/wait.h
• F include/uapi/linux/sched.h
• F kernel/fork.c
• F kernel/sched/
• F tools/sched/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH RFC POC 00/50] file: handle files on syscall exit
  2026-09-15 11:34 · 2 replies in 7d · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 00/17] Treewide: enforce static storage for object initializers
  2026-09-15 03:13 · 1 reply in 7d · Yury Norov <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-08-31

Recent patches

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

• WARM2d [PATCH RFC POC 20/50] file: warn when the descriptor table is unshared with slots
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [PATCH RFC POC 01/50] file: install files on syscall exit
  2026-09-15 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 06/17] sched: assert static storage for wait queue and completion declarations
  2026-09-15 · Yury Norov <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 4/5] cpufreq: schedutil: convert to kthread_create_worker
  2026-09-04 · Bradley Morgan <hidden>
• WARM2d IN LINUX-NEXT: 18 (18M) [PATCH v7 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-31 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v6 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-13 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD37d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-12 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD38d [PATCH v4 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-06 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD42d [PATCH bpf-next v3 2/5] bpf: Add ksock kfuncs
  2026-08-04 · Mahe Tardy <hidden>
• COLD45d [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
  2026-08-02 · Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
• COLD57d [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/5] bpf: Add ksock kfuncs
  2026-07-22 · Mahe Tardy <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 31/40] dept: assign unique dept_key to each distinct wait_for_completion() caller
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 23/40] dept: print staged wait's stacktrace on report
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 18/40] dept: apply timeout consideration to waitqueue wait
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 16/40] dept: apply timeout consideration to wait_for_completion()/complete()
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 15/40] dept: track timeout waits separately with a new Kconfig
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 12/40] dept: apply sdt_might_sleep_{start,end}() to waitqueue wait
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 06/40] dept: distinguish each kernel context from another
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD18d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v19 01/40] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE79d [PATCH 2/2] sched: Use WARN_ON.*_DEFERRED()
  2026-06-23 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE79d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• STALE91d Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: run NAPI poll in softirq context to avoid rq->lock self-deadlock
  2026-06-18 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• STALE99d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE71d [PATCH 17/23] sched/isolation: Extend housekeeping_dereference_check() to cover changes in nohz_full or manged_irqs cpumasks
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 13/23] sched/core: Use RCU to protect access of HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 07/23] watchdog: Sync up with runtime change of isolated CPUs
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 06/23] rcu/nocbs: Allow runtime changes in RCU NOCBS cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 04/23] tick/nohz: Allow runtime changes in full dynticks CPUs
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 03/23] tick/nohz: Make nohz_full parameter optional
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE71d [PATCH 02/23] sched/isolation: Enhance housekeeping_update() to support updating more than one HK cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@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.

• STALE71d [PATCH 01/23] sched/isolation: Add HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE_BOOT & HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ_BOOT
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE91d Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: run NAPI poll in softirq context to avoid rq->lock self-deadlock
  2026-06-18 · Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
• COLD18d [PATCH v19 16/40] dept: apply timeout consideration to wait_for_completion()/complete()
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>