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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