virtio net driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• M Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>
• R Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• R Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>

Paths

• F drivers/net/virtio_net.c
• F include/linux/virtio_net.h
• F include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/virtio_net/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5] virtio_net: disable cb when NAPI is busy-polled
  2026-06-29 02:43 · 0 replies in 7d · Longjun Tang <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
  4 attestations (4 Acked-by) · last on 2026-06-29
• Weiming Shi <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reported-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Fiona Ebner <hidden>
  4 attestations (2 Reported-by, 2 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-11
• Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-16
• Gabriel Goller <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-11

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v5] virtio_net: disable cb when NAPI is busy-polled
  2026-06-29 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COOLING5d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4] virtio_net: disable cb when NAPI is busy-polled
  2026-06-25 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v3] virtio_net: disable cb when NAPI is busy-polled
  2026-06-24 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH v2] virtio_net: disable cb when NAPI is busy-polled
  2026-06-23 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH net-next v3] virtio-net: xsk: support tx wake up
  2026-06-16 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v4] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-16 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH] virtio_net: disable cb when napi_schedule_prep fails during busy-poll
  2026-06-15 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 11 (9M) [PATCH v2 net] virtio_net: do not allow tunnel csum offload for non GSO packets
  2026-06-11 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• COLD15d [PATCH net-next 2/3] virtio_net: initialize napi.tx_napi in virtnet_alloc_queues()
  2026-06-11 · <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] virtio-net: xsk: support tx wake up
  2026-06-11 · <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] virtio_net: xsk: fix race in rx wake up
  2026-06-11 · <hidden>
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v3] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-11 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v2 2/2] virtio-net: harden page_to_skb() big-packet frag loop
  2026-06-10 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH net v2 1/2] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-10 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD18d [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-10 · Xiang Mei <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: support xsk wake up
  2026-06-10 · Menglong Dong <hidden>
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] virtio_net: do not allow tunnel csum offload for non GSO packets
  2026-06-09 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
• COLD26d [PATCH] virtio_net: normalize non-positive napi_weight values
  2026-06-05 · Samuel Moelius <hidden>
• COLD38d [PATCH] virtio_net: drop redundant err assignment in virtnet_probe()
  2026-05-20 · Li Wang <hidden>
• STALE86d [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: disable cb when in busy-polling
  2026-03-31 · Longjun Tang <hidden>
• STALE91d [PATCH net,v5] virtio_net: clamp rss_max_key_size to NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN
  2026-03-26 · Srujana Challa <schalla@marvell.com>
• STALE97d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: sync RX buffer before reading the header
  2026-03-24 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE100d Re: [PATCH net-next v11] virtio_net: add page_pool support for buffer allocation
  2026-03-23 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE100d Re: [PATCH net-next v11] virtio_net: add page_pool support for buffer allocation
  2026-03-23 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE97d [PATCH net-next v4] virtio-net: enable NETIF_F_GRO_HW only if GRO-related offloads are supported
  2026-03-23 · Di Zhu <hidden>
• STALE100d [PATCH net v11 2/2] virtio-net: correct hdr_len handling for tunnel gso
  2026-03-20 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• STALE100d [PATCH net v11 1/2] virtio-net: correct hdr_len handling for VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_HDRLEN
  2026-03-20 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• STALE104d [PATCH net] virtio-net: correct DMA unmap vq mismatch in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()
  2026-03-20 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• STALE105d [PATCH net v3] virtio-net: enable NETIF_F_GRO_HW only if GRO-related offloads are supported
  2026-03-17 · Di Zhu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] virtio-net: enable NETIF_F_GRO_HW only if GRO-related offloads are supported
  2026-03-16 · Di Zhu <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.

• STALE144d REVIEWED: 5 (3M) [PATCH net-next v20 12/12] virtio_net: Add get ethtool flow rules ops
  2026-02-05 · Daniel Jurgens <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE117d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net-next v3] virtio-net: xsk: Support wakeup on RX side
  2026-03-04 · Bui Quang Minh <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE97d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: sync RX buffer before reading the header
  2026-03-24 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> · 2 Tested-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH net] virtio_net: do not allow tunnel csum offload for non GSO packets
  2026-06-09 · Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD16d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v3] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-11 · Xiang Mei <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH net v4] virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()
  2026-06-16 · Xiang Mei <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.

• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH net v2] virtio-net: enable all napis before scheduling refill work
  2025-12-22 · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
• STALE186d [PATCH net-next v6 2/2] virtio-net: Implement ndo_write_rx_mode callback
  2025-12-27 · I Viswanath <hidden>
• STALE177d [PATCH net v2 3/3] virtio-net: clean up __virtnet_rx_pause/resume
  2026-01-02 · Bui Quang Minh <hidden>
• STALE154d [PATCH 2/2] selftests: virtio_net: add buffer circulation test
  2026-01-06 · Vishwanath Seshagiri <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH net-next v8 2/6] virtio-net: Implement ndo_write_rx_mode callback
  2026-01-12 · I Viswanath <hidden>
• STALE148d [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] selftests: virtio_net: add buffer circulation test
  2026-02-03 · Vishwanath Seshagiri <hidden>
• STALE128d [PATCH net-next,2/2] virtio_net: replace RSS key size max check with BUILD_BUG_ON
  2026-02-24 · Srujana Challa <schalla@marvell.com>
• STALE121d [PATCH net v7 2/2] virtio-net: correct hdr_len handling for tunnel gso
  2026-03-02 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• STALE112d [PATCH net v9 1/2] virtio-net: correct hdr_len handling for VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_HDRLEN
  2026-03-11 · Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH net v2] virtio_net: Fix UAF on dst_ops when IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE is cleared and napi_tx is false
  2026-03-12 · xietangxin <hidden>