diff --git a/ipykernel/kernelbase.py b/ipykernel/kernelbase.py
index df2e4fa9..031f784e 100644
--- a/ipykernel/kernelbase.py
+++ b/ipykernel/kernelbase.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 import uuid
 import warnings
 from datetime import datetime
-from queue import Queue
-from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM, Signals
+from functools import partial
+from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM, Signals, signal
 
 from .control import CONTROL_THREAD_NAME
 
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ async def process_control(self, msg):
         if self.control_stream:
             self.control_stream.flush(zmq.POLLOUT)
 
-    def should_handle(self, stream, msg, idents):
+    async def should_handle(self, stream, msg, idents):
         """Check whether a shell-channel message should be handled
 
         Allows subclasses to prevent handling of certain messages (e.g. aborted requests).
@@ -350,9 +350,6 @@ def pre_handler_hook(self):
         """Hook to execute before calling message handler"""
         # ensure default_int_handler during handler call
 
-    def post_handler_hook(self):
-        """Hook to execute after calling message handler"""
-
     async def enter_eventloop(self):
         """enter eventloop"""
         self.log.info("Entering eventloop %s", self.eventloop)
@@ -490,102 +487,10 @@ async def control_main(self):
             await to_thread.run_sync(self.control_stop.wait)
             tg.cancel_scope.cancel()
 
-    async def process_control(self):
-        try:
-            while True:
-                await self.process_control_message()
-        except BaseException as e:
-            if self.control_stop.is_set():
-                return
-            raise e
-
     def post_handler_hook(self):
         """Hook to execute after calling message handler"""
         signal(SIGINT, self.saved_sigint_handler)
 
-    def enter_eventloop(self):
-        """enter eventloop"""
-        self.log.info("Entering eventloop %s", self.eventloop)
-        # record handle, so we can check when this changes
-        eventloop = self.eventloop
-        if eventloop is None:
-            self.log.info("Exiting as there is no eventloop")
-            return
-
-        async def advance_eventloop():
-            # check if eventloop changed:
-            if self.eventloop is not eventloop:
-                self.log.info("exiting eventloop %s", eventloop)
-                return
-            if self.msg_queue.qsize():
-                self.log.debug("Delaying eventloop due to waiting messages")
-                # still messages to process, make the eventloop wait
-                schedule_next()
-                return
-            self.log.debug("Advancing eventloop %s", eventloop)
-            try:
-                eventloop(self)
-            except KeyboardInterrupt:
-                # Ctrl-C shouldn't crash the kernel
-                self.log.error("KeyboardInterrupt caught in kernel")
-            if self.eventloop is eventloop:
-                # schedule advance again
-                schedule_next()
-
-        def schedule_next():
-            """Schedule the next advance of the eventloop"""
-            # call_later allows the io_loop to process other events if needed.
-            # Going through schedule_dispatch ensures all other dispatches on msg_queue
-            # are processed before we enter the eventloop, even if the previous dispatch was
-            # already consumed from the queue by process_one and the queue is
-            # technically empty.
-            self.log.debug("Scheduling eventloop advance")
-            self.io_loop.call_later(0.001, partial(self.schedule_dispatch, advance_eventloop))
-
-    async def process_control_message(self, msg=None):
-        assert self.control_socket is not None
-        assert self.session is not None
-
-        msg = msg or await self.control_socket.recv_multipart()
-        idents, msg = self.session.feed_identities(msg, copy=True)
-        try:
-            msg = self.session.deserialize(msg, content=True, copy=True)
-        except Exception:
-            self.log.error("Invalid Control Message", exc_info=True)  # noqa: G201
-            return
-
-        self.log.debug("Control received: %s", msg)
-
-        # Set the parent message for side effects.
-        self.set_parent(idents, msg, channel="control")
-        self._publish_status("busy", "control")
-
-        header = msg["header"]
-        msg_type = header["msg_type"]
-
-        handler = self.control_handlers.get(msg_type, None)
-        if handler is None:
-            self.log.error("UNKNOWN CONTROL MESSAGE TYPE: %r", msg_type)
-        else:
-            try:
-                t, dispatch, args = self.msg_queue.get_nowait()
-            except (asyncio.QueueEmpty, QueueEmpty):
-                return
-
-        if self.control_thread is None and self.control_stream is not None:
-            # If there isn't a separate control thread then this main thread handles both shell
-            # and control messages. Before processing a shell message we need to flush all control
-            # messages and allow them all to be processed.
-            await asyncio.sleep(0)
-            self.control_stream.flush()
-
-            socket = self.control_stream.socket
-            while socket.poll(1):
-                await asyncio.sleep(0)
-                self.control_stream.flush()
-
-        await dispatch(*args)
-
     async def dispatch_queue(self):
         """Coroutine to preserve order of message handling