net/mlx5e: CT: Offload connections with hardware steering rules

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This is modeled similar to how software steering works:
- a reference-counted matcher is maintained for each
  combination of nat/no_nat x ipv4/ipv6 x tcp/udp/gre.
- adding a rule involves finding+referencing or creating a corresponding
  matcher, then actually adding a rule.
- updating rules is implemented using the bwc_rule update API, which can
  change a rule's actions without touching the match value.

By using a T-Rex traffic generator to initiate multi-million UDP flows
per second, a kernel running with these patches on the RX side was able
to offload ~600K flows per second, which is about ~7x larger than what
software steering could do on the same hardware (256-thread AMD EPYC,
512 GB RAM, ConnectX-7 b2b).

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250114130646.1937192-5-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc/ct_fs_hmfs.c

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