rxrpc: Implement progressive transmission queue struct

We need to scan the buffers in the transmission queue occasionally when
processing ACKs, but the transmission queue is currently a linked list of
transmission buffers which, when we eventually expand the Tx window to 8192
packets will be very slow to walk.

Instead, pull the fields we need to examine a lot (last sent time,
retransmitted flag) into a new struct rxrpc_txqueue and make each one hold
an array of 32 or 64 packets.

The transmission queue is then a list of these structs, each pointing to a
contiguous set of packets.  Scanning is then a lot faster as the flags and
timestamps are concentrated in the CPU dcache.

The transmission timestamps are stored as a number of microseconds from a
base ktime to reduce memory requirements.  This should be fine provided we
manage to transmit an entire buffer within an hour.

This will make implementing RACK-TLP [RFC8985] easier as it will be less
costly to scan the transmission buffers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241204074710.990092-19-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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