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rcourtman efd3b29ac8 Poll only the history each metric table renders (#2632)
`useWorkloadTableMetricHistory` ran two polled estate-wide reads per
instance in Trends mode: the workloads history (`/api/charts/workloads`)
and the infrastructure summary (`/api/charts/infrastructure`). Since
#2622 removed the host metric cells from grouped workload rows, the
Workloads surface reads only guest series, and the Proxmox nodes table
never read anything but node series. Two instances never shared reads
either: each forwards its own abort signal, which skips the summary
caches' in-flight dedupe, and retained query values only seed matching
mounts and source changes without sharing requests. So every reader paid
for both routes every 30 seconds.

The hook now takes a required `series: 'guests' | 'nodes'` option. The
Workloads state passes `'guests'` and the Proxmox nodes table passes
`'nodes'` (and drops the `selectedNode` it never needed), so each reader
polls one route.

### Measured
Private demo-mode mock stack, Trends on, 95 s per page (first read +
three 30 s polls), reads per poll tick:

| Page | Viewport | Before (infra + workloads) | After (infra +
workloads) |
|---|---|---|---|
| /vmware | desktop 1440x900 | 1 + 1 | 0 + 1 |
| /vmware | phone 390x844 | 1 + 1 | 0 + 1 |
| /proxmox/overview | desktop 1440x900 | 2 + 2 | 1 + 1 |
| /proxmox/overview | phone 390x844 | 2 + 2 | 1 + 1 |

Node table sparklines on /proxmox/overview still draw for every row (36
on desktop, 18 on phone), and the guest table sparklines are unchanged.

### Tests
- `useWorkloadTableMetricHistory.test.tsx`: a `'guests'` reader polls
only the workloads route and a `'nodes'` reader only the infrastructure
route, across two polls. Both cases fail with the gating reverted.
- `ProxmoxNodesTable.test.tsx`: the table asks for node history only,
with no node scope, and enables it only in Trends.
- `WorkloadsSurface.performance.contract.test.tsx` pins both call sites
and the gating.

The performance contract claimed the two readers deduped their fetches;
it now says they do not and that each reader polls only what it renders.
The adjacent Bars-mode prose (performance and frontend-primitives
contracts) described one active-row request that leaving the row
cancels; it now describes the bounded warming window the hook has
actually run since the history lens shipped.

Stacked on #2622, whose auto-merge is already on: this branch contains
its commits and merges cleanly with main either way round.
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