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From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:01:29 -0700

> I think you missed my earlier reply to your message. In summary, the
> notification deferral is 1ms which should not cause any trashing;
> more over with that suggested approach the rtnl-owner will have to
> do your job and will be subjected to the latencies which may be
> undesirable.

Someone has to do the work, and if the rtnl-owner does it we do not
incur all of the overhead the resubmission entails.

> OTOH this patch series is not adding any new deferral work, but just
> making it bug-free.

It's continuing a bad approach to the problem.