Revert "net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"

After the previous commit is finally safe to revert commit dbae2b062824
("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"): do it here.

The intended goal of such change was to counter a performance regression
introduced by commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs").

Unfortunately, the blamed commit introduces another regression for the
virtio_net driver. Such a driver calls napi_alloc_skb() with a tiny
size, so that the whole head frag could fit a 512-byte block.

The single page frag cache uses a 1K fragment for such allocation, and
the additional overhead, under small UDP packets flood, makes the page
allocator a bottleneck.

Thanks to commit bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for
typical/small skb->head"), this revert does not re-introduce the
original regression. Actually, in the relevant test on top of this
revert, I measure a small but noticeable positive delta, just above
noise level.

The revert itself required some additional mangling due to recent updates
in the affected code.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: dbae2b062824 ("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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