gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting

In order to support installing an XDP program on DQ, RX buffers need to
be reposted using 4K buffers, which is larger than the default packet
buffer size of 2K. This is needed to accommodate the extra head and tail
that accompanies the data portion of an XDP buffer. Continuing to use 2K
buffers would mean that the packet buffer size for the NIC would have to
be restricted to 2048 - 320 - 256 = 1472B. However, this is problematic
for two reasons: first, 1472 is not a packet buffer size accepted by
GVE; second, at least 1474B of buffer space is needed to accommodate an
MTU of 1460, which is the default on GCP. As such, we allocate 4K
buffers, and post a 2K section of those 4K buffers (offset relative to
the XDP headroom) to the NIC for DMA to avoid a potential extra copy.
Because the GQ-QPL datapath requires copies regardless, this change was
not needed to support XDP in that case.

To capture this subtlety, a new field, packet_buffer_truesize, has been
added to the rx ring struct to represent size of the allocated buffer,
while packet_buffer_size has been left to represent the portion of the
buffer posted to the NIC.

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250321002910.1343422-6-hramamurthy@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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