Networking: The are issues with the TCP write-ahead buffering if CONFIG_NET_NOINTS is enabled: There is a possibility of deadlocks in certain timing conditions. I have not seen this with the Tiva driver that I have been users but other people claim to see the issue on other platforms. Certainly it is a logic error: The network should never wait for TCP read-ahead buffering space to be available. It should drop the packets immediately.

This was fixed by duplicating most of the IOB interfaces:  The versions that waited are still present (like iob_alloc()), but now there are non-waiting verisons of the same interfaces (like iob_tryalloc()).  The TCP read-ahead logic now uses only these non-waiting interfaces.

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