lguest: Tell Guest net not to notify us on every packet xmit

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virtio_ring has the ability to suppress notifications.  This prevents
a guest exit for every packet, but we need to set a timer on packet
receipt to re-check if there were any remaining packets.

Here are the times for 1G TCP Guest->Host with different timeout
settings (it matters because the TCP window doesn't grow big enough to
fill the entire buffer):

Timeout value	Seconds		Xmit/Recv/Timeout
None (before)	25.3784		xmit 7750233 recv 1
2500 usec	62.5119		xmit 207020 recv 2 timeout 207020
1000 usec	34.5379		xmit 207003 recv 2 timeout 207003
750 usec	29.2305		xmit 207002 recv 1 timeout 207002
500 usec	19.1887		xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
250 usec	20.0465		xmit 214128 recv 2 timeout 214110
100 usec	19.2583		xmit 561621 recv 1 timeout 560153

(Note that these values are sensitive to the GSO patches which come
 later, and probably other traffic-related variables, so take with a
 large grain of salt).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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