sfc: Stop TX queues before they fill up

We now have a definite upper bound on the number of descriptors per
skb; use that to stop the queue when the next packet might not fit.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c

@@ -630,6 +630,16 @@ static void efx_start_datapath(struct efx_nic *efx)
 	efx->rx_buffer_order = get_order(efx->rx_buffer_len +
 					 sizeof(struct efx_rx_page_state));
 
+	/* We must keep at least one descriptor in a TX ring empty.
+	 * We could avoid this when the queue size does not exactly
+	 * match the hardware ring size, but it's not that important.
+	 * Therefore we stop the queue when one more skb might fill
+	 * the ring completely.  We wake it when half way back to
+	 * empty.
+	 */
+	efx->txq_stop_thresh = efx->txq_entries - efx_tx_max_skb_descs(efx);
+	efx->txq_wake_thresh = efx->txq_stop_thresh / 2;
+
 	/* Initialise the channels */
 	efx_for_each_channel(channel, efx) {
 		efx_for_each_channel_tx_queue(tx_queue, channel)

drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h

@@ -665,6 +665,8 @@ struct vfdi_status;
  *	should be allocated for this NIC
  * @rxq_entries: Size of receive queues requested by user.
  * @txq_entries: Size of transmit queues requested by user.
+ * @txq_stop_thresh: TX queue fill level at or above which we stop it.
+ * @txq_wake_thresh: TX queue fill level at or below which we wake it.
  * @tx_dc_base: Base qword address in SRAM of TX queue descriptor caches
  * @rx_dc_base: Base qword address in SRAM of RX queue descriptor caches
  * @sram_lim_qw: Qword address limit of SRAM
@@ -775,6 +777,9 @@ struct efx_nic {
 
 	unsigned rxq_entries;
 	unsigned txq_entries;
+	unsigned int txq_stop_thresh;
+	unsigned int txq_wake_thresh;
+
 	unsigned tx_dc_base;
 	unsigned rx_dc_base;
 	unsigned sram_lim_qw;