svcrdma: Reduce the number of rdma_rw contexts per-QP

There is an upper bound on the number of rdma_rw contexts that can
be created per QP.

This invisible upper bound is because rdma_create_qp() adds one or
more additional SQEs for each ctxt that the ULP requests via
qp_attr.cap.max_rdma_ctxs. The QP's actual Send Queue length is on
the order of the sum of qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr and a factor times
qp_attr.cap.max_rdma_ctxs. The factor can be up to three, depending
on whether MR operations are required before RDMA Reads.

This limit is not visible to RDMA consumers via dev->attrs. When the
limit is surpassed, QP creation fails with -ENOMEM. For example:

svcrdma's estimate of the number of rdma_rw contexts it needs is
three times the number of pages in RPCSVC_MAXPAGES. When MAXPAGES
is about 260, the internally-computed SQ length should be:

64 credits + 10 backlog + 3 * (3 * 260) = 2414

Which is well below the advertised qp_max_wr of 32768.

If RPCSVC_MAXPAGES is increased to 4MB, that's 1040 pages:

64 credits + 10 backlog + 3 * (3 * 1040) = 9434

However, QP creation fails. Dynamic printk for mlx5 shows:

calc_sq_size:618:(pid 1514): send queue size (9326 * 256 / 64 -> 65536) exceeds limits(32768)

Although 9326 is still far below qp_max_wr, QP creation still
fails.

Because the total SQ length calculation is opaque to RDMA consumers,
there doesn't seem to be much that can be done about this except for
consumers to try to keep the requested rdma_rw ctxt count low.

Fixes: 2da0f610e733 ("svcrdma: Increase the per-transport rw_ctx count")
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

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