net/mlx5e: Introducing new statistics rwlock
Introduce a new read/write lock that will protect statistics gathering from netdev channels configuration changes. e.g. when channels are being replaced (increase/decrease number of rings) prevent statistic gathering (ndo_get_stats64) to read the statistics of in-active channels (channels that are being closed). Plus update channels software statistics on the fly when calling ndo_get_stats64, and remove it from stats periodic work. Fixes: 9218b44d ("net/mlx5e: Statistics handling refactoring") Signed-off-by: Shalom Lagziel <shaloml@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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