linux config: add support for xdp sockets and ebpf jit
xdp socket support (AF_XDP) is the new way of implementing high performance networking on linux. on arch linux and debian this is already enabled (checked via the links from the nixos manual). moreover, these flags are suggested by the bpf documentation at cilium: https://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/#compiling-the-kernel additionally the flag `BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON` on was suggested to help spectre attack mitigations: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/290af86629b25ffd1ed6232c4e9107da031705cb
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