NTB: Add flow control to the ntb_netdev
Right now if we push the NTB really hard, we start dropping packets due to not able to process the packets fast enough. We need to st:qop the upper layer from flooding us when that happens. A timer is necessary in order to restart the queue once the resource has been processed on the receive side. Due to the way NTB is setup, the resources on the tx side are tied to the processing of the rx side and there's no async way to know when the rx side has released those resources. Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
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