Re: [PATCH 6.6 3/3] net: Allow to use SMP threads for backlog NAPI.

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Mon Jan 19 2026 - 11:25:35 EST


On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:15:46 +0800 wen.yang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit dad6b97702639fba27a2bd3e986982ad6f0db3a7 upstream.
>
> Backlog NAPI is a per-CPU NAPI struct only (with no device behind it)
> used by drivers which don't do NAPI them self, RPS and parts of the
> stack which need to avoid recursive deadlocks while processing a packet.

This is a rather large change to backport into LTS.