tcp: refine tcp_prune_ofo_queue() to not drop all packets

Over the years, TCP BDP has increased a lot, and is typically
in the order of ~10 Mbytes with help of clever Congestion Control
modules.

In presence of packet losses, TCP stores incoming packets into an out of
order queue, and number of skbs sitting there waiting for the missing
packets to be received can match the BDP (~10 Mbytes)

In some cases, TCP needs to make room for incoming skbs, and current
strategy can simply remove all skbs in the out of order queue as a last
resort, incurring a huge penalty, both for receiver and sender.

Unfortunately these 'last resort events' are quite frequent, forcing
sender to send all packets again, stalling the flow and wasting a lot of
resources.

This patch cleans only a part of the out of order queue in order
to meet the memory constraints.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
Cc: C. Stephen Gun <[email protected]>
Cc: Van Jacobson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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