net: qrtr: Implement outgoing flow control
In order to prevent overconsumption of resources on the remote side QRTR implements a flow control mechanism. The mechanism works by the sender keeping track of the number of outstanding unconfirmed messages that has been transmitted to a particular node/port pair. Upon count reaching a low watermark (L) the confirm_rx bit is set in the outgoing message and when the count reaching a high watermark (H) transmission will be blocked upon the reception of a resume_tx message from the remote, that resets the counter to 0. This guarantees that there will be at most 2H - L messages in flight. Values chosen for L and H are 5 and 10 respectively. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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