virtio_net: Enforce minimum TX ring size for reliability

The `tx_may_stop()` logic stops TX queues if free descriptors
(`sq->vq->num_free`) fall below the threshold of (`MAX_SKB_FRAGS` + 2).
If the total ring size (`ring_num`) is not strictly greater than this
value, queues can become persistently stopped or stop after minimal
use, severely degrading performance.

A single sk_buff transmission typically requires descriptors for:
- The virtio_net_hdr (1 descriptor)
- The sk_buff's linear data (head) (1 descriptor)
- Paged fragments (up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS descriptors)

This patch enforces that the TX ring size ('ring_num') must be strictly
greater than (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2). This ensures that the ring is
always large enough to hold at least one maximally-fragmented packet
plus at least one additional slot.

Reported-by: Lei Yang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Tested-by: Lei Yang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

Author: vivier

drivers/net/virtio_net.c

@@ -3504,6 +3504,12 @@ static int virtnet_tx_resize(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct send_queue *sq,
 {
 	int qindex, err;
 
+	if (ring_num <= MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2) {
+		netdev_err(vi->dev, "tx size (%d) cannot be smaller than %d\n",
+			   ring_num, MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	qindex = sq - vi->sq;
 
 	virtnet_tx_pause(vi, sq);