IB/hfi1: Avoid hardlockup with flushlist_lock
Heavy contention of the sde flushlist_lock can cause hard lockups at extreme scale when the flushing logic is under stress. Mitigate by replacing the item at a time copy to the local list with an O(1) list_splice_init() and using the high priority work queue to do the flushes. Fixes: 77241056 ("IB/hfi1: add driver files") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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