+/* If the virtio transport doesn't always notify us when all in-flight packets
+ * are consumed, we fall back to using this function on a timer to free them. */
+static void xmit_free(unsigned long data)
+{
+ struct virtnet_info *vi = (void *)data;
+
+ netif_tx_lock(vi->dev);
+
+ free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
+
+ if (!skb_queue_empty(&vi->send))
+ mod_timer(&vi->xmit_free_timer, jiffies + (HZ/10));
+
+ netif_tx_unlock(vi->dev);
+}
+