Rob Norris 42b9995f88 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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OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.

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Full documentation for installing OpenZFS on your favorite operating system can be found at the Getting Started Page.

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  • The META file contains the officially recognized supported Linux kernel versions.
  • Supported FreeBSD versions are any supported branches and releases starting from 13.0-RELEASE.
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