diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 82264e717e53539327c4315c5e653c7f7fc63cd9..6c131f055ab04847e0959bdbc7ea7b4696bfd501 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1403,6 +1403,9 @@ static inline void netdev_for_each_tx_queue(struct net_device *dev,
 		f(dev, &dev->_tx[i], arg);
 }
 
+extern struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
+					   struct sk_buff *skb);
+
 /*
  * Net namespace inlines
  */
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index bbda81997f4f418e8936c25b5c2122f7117bc91a..707b12425a79234740918e61b78fc786ed7944bb 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2396,8 +2396,8 @@ static inline int get_xps_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 #endif
 }
 
-static struct netdev_queue *dev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
-					struct sk_buff *skb)
+struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
+				    struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	int queue_index;
 	const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
@@ -2571,7 +2571,7 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	skb_update_prio(skb);
 
-	txq = dev_pick_tx(dev, skb);
+	txq = netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb);
 	q = rcu_dereference_bh(txq->qdisc);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index dd67818025d194b5ee1554c2e3cc456ec8bd252e..77a0388fc3beccbf39187e357c7a1b4c93f09d73 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (skb_queue_len(&npinfo->txq) == 0 && !netpoll_owner_active(dev)) {
 		struct netdev_queue *txq;
 
-		txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
+		txq = netdev_pick_tx(dev, skb);
 
 		/* try until next clock tick */
 		for (tries = jiffies_to_usecs(1)/USEC_PER_POLL;