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Rob Norris 3662c7f33c linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused inodes
Traditionally, unused inodes would be held on the superblock inode cache
until the associated on-disk file is removed or the kernel requests
reclaim.  On filesystems with millions of rarely-used files, this can be
a lot of unusable memory.

Here we implement the superblock drop_inode method, and add a
zfs_delete_inode tunable to control its behaviour. By default it
continues the traditional behaviour, but when the tunable is enabled, we
signal that the inode should be deleted immediately when the last
reference is dropped, rather than cached. This releases the associated
data to the dbuf cache and ARC, allowing them to be reclaimed normally.

Sponsored-by: Klara, Inc.
Sponsored-by: Fastmail Pty Ltd
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <alexander.motin@TrueNAS.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Norris <rob.norris@klarasystems.com>
Closes #17746
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config config: restore ZFS_AC_KERNEL_DENTRY tests 2026-02-11 16:18:01 -08:00
contrib Add allocation profile export and zhack subcommand for import 2026-02-11 10:27:01 -08:00
etc docs: fix a few small typos (#17804) 2025-10-21 10:35:58 -07:00
include Fix build for Linux 6.18 with PowerPC/RISC-V kernels. (#18145) 2026-02-11 13:33:19 -08:00
lib mmp: claim sequence id before final import 2026-02-11 13:33:19 -08:00
man linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused inodes 2026-02-11 16:18:01 -08:00
module linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused inodes 2026-02-11 16:18:01 -08:00
rpm Add templated zfs-mount@.service 2025-08-19 10:30:04 -07:00
scripts Linux 6.19: handle --werror with CONFIG_OBJTOOL_WERROR=y 2026-02-11 13:33:19 -08:00
tests ZTS: update the relevant mmp test cases 2026-02-11 13:33:19 -08:00
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