net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Improve allocation recovery

When memory providers are used, there is a disconnect between the
page_pool size and the available memory in the provider. This means
that the page_pool can run out of memory if the user didn't provision
a large enough buffer.

Under these conditions, mlx5 gets stuck trying to allocate new
buffers without being able to release existing buffers. This happens due
to the optimization introduced in commit 4c2a13236807
("net/mlx5e: RX, Defer page release in striding rq for better recycling")
which delays WQE releases to increase the chance of page_pool direct
recycling. The optimization was developed before memory providers
existed and this circumstance was not considered.

This patch unblocks the queue by reclaiming pages from WQEs that can be
freed and doing a one-shot retry. A WQE can be freed when:
1) All its strides have been consumed (WQE is no longer in linked list).
2) The WQE pages/netmems have not been previously released.

This reclaim mechanism is useful for regular pages as well.

Note that provisioning memory that can't fill even one MPWQE (64
4K pages) will still render the queue unusable. Same when
the application doesn't release its buffers for various reasons.
Or a combination of the two: a very small buffer is provisioned,
application releases buffers in bulk, bulk size never reached
=> queue is stuck.

Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203072130.1710255-3-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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