VPA: fix RequestsOnly capping for fractional limits

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Currently recommendations are capped to the limits in the container status when using RequestsOnly and in-place Pod resize is enabled. However, limits in the container status can be rounded up if the limits in the Pod spec are fractional. This can lead to VPA attempting to set requests higher than limits.

This PR fixes this by capping recommendations to the container limits in the Pod spec.

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?

Fixed bug where VPA can attempt to set requests higher than fractional limits

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Recommendations in requests-only mode now respect the precise CPU and memory limits declared for containers.
  • Prevents calculated container limits from exceeding Pod-specified limits, including values with fractional precision.
  • Resources without configured maximums remain unchanged.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for resource capping, including values above, below, or equal to limits, fractional CPU and memory values, missing limits, and nil inputs.

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Walkthrough

The change adds an in-place ResourceList capping helper. Requests-only VPA recommendations use Pod-declared container limits before capping. Resource comparisons now preserve sub-milli precision. Tests cover helper behavior and fractional limits.

Changes

Resource capping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resource capping helper and coverage vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/utils/resources/resourcehelpers.go, vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/utils/resources/resourcehelpers_test.go	Adds CapResources and tests capped values, unchanged values, missing maximums, and nil lists.
Requests-only recommendation limits vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/utils/vpa/capping.go, vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/utils/vpa/capping_test.go	Caps requests-only container limits to Pod-declared values, compares exact resource quantities, and tests fractional CPU and memory limits.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 02290

The VPA capping change can still produce a rounded CPU request above an exact fractional container limit, causing Pod resize or update validation to fail. The PR is not merge-ready until this bounded correctness issue is fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Suggested reviewers: adrianmoisey, maxcao13, omerap12

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Inline comments:
In `@vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/utils/vpa/capping.go`:
- Around line 140-144: Update the capping logic around
resourcehelpers.CapResources to compare recommended and Pod-limit quantities
using exact Quantity.Cmp results rather than MilliValue(), so 101m is recognized
as exceeding 100500u; add a regression test covering this precision-sensitive
case.

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