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Hello!

> When conditions fails, the value of wmem_alloc is ~ 
> around 56K-154K,

... which means that you already have 64-154K transmitted
and all this buffers still not left the host. So, further
retransmission is pointless.


> Each time it tries to retransmit this if condition
> always fail
...
> Any hints in  helping me debug this issue will be
> appreciated.

Most likely, this means that driver leaks memory.

Alexey