Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: run NAPI poll in softirq context to avoid rq->lock self-deadlock

[John Ogness]

On 2026-06-17, Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 2026-06-17 13:15:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Can't we push all the legacy consoles into a single legacy kthread? I
>> mean, converting all consoles is of course awesome, but should we really
>> wait for that?
>
> I am afraid that converting the consoles one by one is the deal with
> Linus. I could imagine to moving last few sinners into the kthread
> when the majority is converted. But we are far from there :-/

Note that the proposed patch is only for older kernels. For mainline it
is moot because netconsole is already converted to nbcon.

John