Having those modulo operations implies costly instructions execution,
what can be avoided with conditionals and unlikely clauses.
This change makes the software ring read and write indexes to be now
always within the ring size which has to be handled properly. The main
problem is when write pointer wraps and being less than the read pointer.
This happened before, but just with indexes type size (uint32_t) wrapping,
and in that case the processor does the right thing no requiring special
handling by software.
This work has also led to discovering redundant pointers in the driver,
which have been removed.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
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