idpf: add support for Tx refillqs in flow scheduling mode

In certain production environments, it is possible for completion tags
to collide, meaning N packets with the same completion tag are in flight
at the same time. In this environment, any given Tx queue is effectively
used to send both slower traffic and higher throughput traffic
simultaneously. This is the result of a customer's specific
configuration in the device pipeline, the details of which Intel cannot
provide. This configuration results in a small number of out-of-order
completions, i.e., a small number of packets in flight. The existing
guardrails in the driver only protect against a large number of packets
in flight. The slower flow completions are delayed which causes the
out-of-order completions. The fast flow will continue sending traffic
and generating tags. Because tags are generated on the fly, the fast
flow eventually uses the same tag for a packet that is still in flight
from the slower flow. The driver has no idea which packet it should
clean when it processes the completion with that tag, but it will look
for the packet on the buffer ring before the hash table.  If the slower
flow packet completion is processed first, it will end up cleaning the
fast flow packet on the ring prematurely. This leaves the descriptor
ring in a bad state resulting in a crash or Tx timeout.

In summary, generating a tag when a packet is sent can lead to the same
tag being associated with multiple packets. This can lead to resource
leaks, crashes, and/or Tx timeouts.

Before we can replace the tag generation, we need a new mechanism for
the send path to know what tag to use next. The driver will allocate and
initialize a refillq for each TxQ with all of the possible free tag
values. During send, the driver grabs the next free tag from the refillq
from next_to_clean. While cleaning the packet, the clean routine posts
the tag back to the refillq's next_to_use to indicate that it is now
free to use.

This mechanism works exactly the same way as the existing Rx refill
queues, which post the cleaned buffer IDs back to the buffer queue to be
reposted to HW. Since we're using the refillqs for both Rx and Tx now,
genericize some of the existing refillq support.

Note: the refillqs will not be used yet. This is only demonstrating how
they will be used to pass free tags back to the send path.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Madhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@intel.com>
Tested-by: Samuel Salin <Samuel.salin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

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