Re: [PATCH 8/8] RFC: use a TASK_FIFO kthread for read completion support

From: Christoph Hellwig

Date: Wed Apr 15 2026 - 02:59:30 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 08:30:51AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Not sure why I ended up here

Because this is very similar to ksoftirqd and softirq.c doesn't have a
maintainer, and you were the last one doing substantial changes to it.
And you're also very knowledgeable about PREEMPT_RT, which has a bit of
a history of low-latency user context helpers :)