net:cxgb3: replace tasklets with works
OFLD and CTRL TX queues can be stopped if there is no room in their DMA rings. If this happens, they're tried to be restarted later after having made some room in the corresponding ring. The tasks of restarting these queues were triggered using tasklets, but they can be replaced for workqueue works, getting them out of softirq context. This queues stop/restart probably doesn't happen often and they can be quite lengthy because they try to send all pending skbs. Moreover, given that probably the ring is not empty yet, so the DMA still has work to do, we don't need to be so fast to justify using tasklets/softirq instead of running in a thread. Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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