netfilter: x_tables: dont block BH while reading counters

Using "iptables -L" with a lot of rules have a too big BH latency.
Jesper mentioned ~6 ms and worried of frame drops.

Switch to a per_cpu seqlock scheme, so that taking a snapshot of
counters doesnt need to block BH (for this cpu, but also other cpus).

This adds two increments on seqlock sequence per ipt_do_table() call,
its a reasonable cost for allowing "iptables -L" not block BH
processing.

Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

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