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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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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 :)