workqueue · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• R Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
• F include/linux/workqueue.h
• F kernel/workqueue.c
• F kernel/workqueue_internal.h

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING10d [PATCH v19 07/40] dept: distinguish each work from another
  2026-07-06 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• COLD22d [PATCH v3 5/7] kernel: Use mutable list iterators
  2026-06-22 · Kaitao Cheng <hidden>
• COLD42d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COLD42d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 09/23] workqueue: Use RCU to protect access of HK_TYPE_TIMER cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2026-01-25 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE149d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2026-01-01 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE203d [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-12-24 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• COLD17d [PATCH v18 07/42] dept: distinguish each work from another
  2025-12-05 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE211d [PATCH 17/31] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-11-05 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE259d [PATCH 17/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
  2025-10-13 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE234d [PATCH v17 10/47] dept: distinguish each work from another
  2025-10-02 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE387d Re: [PATCH v2] wireguard: queueing: simplify wg_cpumask_next_online()
  2025-06-30 · Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
• STALE363d [PATCH v16 10/42] dept: distinguish each work from another
  2025-05-19 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE433d [PATCH v15 10/43] dept: distinguish each work from another
  2025-05-13 · Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
• STALE791d [PATCH v3 6/6] workqueue: Inherit per-process allocation flags
  2024-05-22 · Håkon Bugge <hidden>
• STALE791d [PATCH v3 1/6] workqueue: Inherit per-process allocation flags
  2024-05-22 · Håkon Bugge <hidden>
• STALE788d [PATCH v2 1/6] workqueue: Inherit NOIO and NOFS alloc flags
  2024-05-15 · Håkon Bugge <hidden>
• STALE796d [PATCH 1/6] workqueue: Inherit NOIO and NOFS alloc flags
  2024-05-13 · Håkon Bugge <hidden>
• STALE421d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v3 3/8] workqueue: Implement BH workqueues to eventually replace tasklets
  2024-02-04 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE421d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 3/8] workqueue: Implement BH workqueues to eventually replace tasklets
  2024-02-02 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE421d [PATCH 3/8] workqueue: Implement BH workqueues to eventually replace tasklets
  2024-01-30 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE421d [PATCH 2/8] workqueue: Factor out init_cpu_worker_pool()
  2024-01-30 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE421d [PATCH 1/8] workqueue: Update lock debugging code
  2024-01-30 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH wq/for-6.5-fixes] workqueue: Drop the special locking rule for worker->flags and worker_pool->flags
  2023-07-25 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE1093d Re: Consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND messages (was: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism)
  2023-07-18 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE1093d Re: Consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND messages (was: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism)
  2023-07-17 · Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
• STALE1153d Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] sched/isolation: Add HK_TYPE_WQ to isolcpus=domain
  2022-10-14 · Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
• STALE1153d [PATCH v2 3/4] sched/isolation: Add HK_TYPE_WQ to isolcpus=domain
  2022-10-13 · Leonardo Bras <hidden>
• STALE1911d [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: Have 'alloc_workqueue()' like macros accept a format specifier
  2021-04-18 · Christophe JAILLET <hidden>

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.

• COOLING14d [PATCH 09/23] workqueue: Use RCU to protect access of HK_TYPE_TIMER cpumask
  2026-04-21 · Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>