From 26de5beeb14dda7f5d3cc5a4f363c0a13f37cc98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:19:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "gh-128691: Use deferred reference counting on
 `_thread._local` (#128693)"

This reverts commit c1417487e98e270d614965ed78ff9439044b65a6.
---
 Modules/_threadmodule.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_threadmodule.c b/Modules/_threadmodule.c
index d19ae326bd6b48..2cbdfeb09b95ae 100644
--- a/Modules/_threadmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_threadmodule.c
@@ -1414,10 +1414,6 @@ local_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    // gh-128691: Use deferred reference counting for thread-locals to avoid
-    // contention on the shared object.
-    _PyObject_SetDeferredRefcount((PyObject *)self);
-
     self->args = Py_XNewRef(args);
     self->kw = Py_XNewRef(kw);