Re: Backport request: Revert "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job" (d15121be7485)
From: Gyutae Bae
Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 00:42:49 EST
On 10/29/26 09:33, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> IMHO such change should not land to stable lightly. It's a behavioural
> change with subtle side effects. The threaded napi feature is disabled
> by default for the same reason. Also the revert has some soft functional
> dependencies in napi threaded cleanup and improvements landed into v6.4,
> i.e. 6bb218b5a6e3f3c5e2e76faf8fc976f3f6f72496, likely more.
Thanks for taking a look. I understand the concern about changing
behavior in stable kernels.
Gyutae Bae