diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
index 8171d4e1d..be8376935 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/README.md
@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ As of version `1.26.0` of this chart, by simply not providing any clusterIP valu
 | controller.enableAnnotationValidations | bool | `false` |  |
 | controller.enableMimalloc | bool | `true` | Enable mimalloc as a drop-in replacement for malloc. # ref: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc # |
 | controller.enableTopologyAwareRouting | bool | `false` | This configuration enables Topology Aware Routing feature, used together with service annotation service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode="auto" Defaults to false |
-| controller.enableWorkerSerialReloads | bool | `false` | This configuration defines if NGINX workers should reload serially instead of concurrently when multiple changes that require reloads are queued |
 | controller.existingPsp | string | `""` | Use an existing PSP instead of creating one |
 | controller.extraArgs | object | `{}` | Additional command line arguments to pass to Ingress-Nginx Controller E.g. to specify the default SSL certificate you can use |
 | controller.extraContainers | list | `[]` | Additional containers to be added to the controller pod. See https://github.com/lemonldap-ng-controller/lemonldap-ng-controller as example. |
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-configmap.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-configmap.yaml
index 50ae824a8..22080d115 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-configmap.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/controller-configmap.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ metadata:
   namespace: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}
 data:
   allow-snippet-annotations: "{{ .Values.controller.allowSnippetAnnotations }}"
-  enable-serial-reloads: "{{ .Values.controller.enableWorkerSerialReloads }}"
 {{- if .Values.controller.addHeaders }}
   add-headers: {{ include "ingress-nginx.namespace" . }}/{{ include "ingress-nginx.fullname" . }}-custom-add-headers
 {{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
index 37aa0f73b..8db58ff2a 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/values.yaml
@@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ controller:
   # when users add those annotations.
   # Global snippets in ConfigMap are still respected
   allowSnippetAnnotations: false
-  # -- This configuration defines if NGINX workers should reload serially instead of concurrently when multiple changes that require reloads are queued
-  enableWorkerSerialReloads: false
   # -- Required for use with CNI based kubernetes installations (such as ones set up by kubeadm),
   # since CNI and hostport don't mix yet. Can be deprecated once https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/23920
   # is merged