vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers

When transmitting a vsock packet, virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() calls
virtio_transport_alloc_linear_skb() to allocate and fill SKBs with the
transmit data. Unfortunately, these are always linear allocations and
can therefore result in significant pressure on kmalloc() considering
that the maximum packet size (VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE +
VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM) is a little over 64KiB, resulting in a 128KiB
allocation for each packet.

Rework the vsock SKB allocation so that, for sizes with page order
greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, a nonlinear SKB is allocated
instead with the packet header in the SKB and the transmit data in the
fragments. Note that this affects both the vhost and virtio transports.

Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-10-will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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