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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 00/21] netfs: Keep track of folios in a segmented bio_vec[] chain
  2026-07-06 15:36 · 1 reply in 7d · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday [PATCH v5 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-07-06 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD20d [PATCH v4 26/30] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-16 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD28d [PATCH v3 19/22] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-06-08 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v2 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD58d [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: fix repeated word 'that' across documentation
  2026-05-09 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• COLD58d [PATCH 2/5] docs: fix repeated word 'that' across documentation
  2026-05-08 · Adrien Reynard <hidden>
• STALE83d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE109d [PATCH v2 2/2] tree-wide: rename do_exit() to task_exit()
  2026-03-10 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• STALE104d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE119d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 08/15] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE132d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v2 08/15] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-23 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE133d [PATCH 13/13] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE133d [PATCH 07/13] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  2026-02-04 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE175d REVIEWED: 13 (12M) [PATCH v6 14/15] VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
  2025-11-13 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE235d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v5 13/14] VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
  2025-11-06 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE242d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v4 13/14] VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
  2025-10-29 · NeilBrown <hidden>
• STALE275d [PATCH] fs: doc: Fix typos
  2025-10-01 · Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri <hidden>
• STALE283d [PATCH v3 20/38] nfs_common: add new NOTIFY4_* flags proposed in RFC8881bis
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE283d [PATCH v3 19/38] nfsd: add protocol support for CB_NOTIFY
  2025-09-24 · Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
• STALE130d [PATCH 10/11] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl().
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE130d [PATCH 08/11] VFS: allow d_splice_alias() and d_add() to work on hashed dentries.
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE130d [PATCH 09/11] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel()
  2025-08-12 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE389d LANDED [PATCH 2/5] VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst
  2025-06-08 · NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
• STALE412d LANDED [PATCH 09/11] folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
  2025-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE412d LANDED [PATCH 02/11] fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
  2025-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE412d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH 01/11] netfs: Update main API document
  2025-05-19 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH] fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
  2025-04-28 · Max Kellermann <hidden>
• STALE451d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] netfs: Update main API document
  2025-04-09 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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.

• STALE119d REVIEWED: 4 (4M) [PATCH v3 15/15] VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  2026-02-24 · NeilBrown <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.

• STALE104d [RFC PATCH 15/17] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-04 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• STALE83d [PATCH 23/26] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-03-26 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
• COLD32d [PATCH v2 18/21] netfs: Remove folio_queue and rolling_buffer
  2026-05-18 · David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>