Rob Norris ab8cc63c77 linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused dentries
Traditionally, unused dentries would be cached in the dentry cache until
the associated entry is no longer on disk. The cached dentry continues
to hold an inode reference, causing the inode to be pinned (see previous
commit).

Here we implement the dentry op d_delete, which is roughly analogous to
the drop_inode superblock op, and add a zfs_delete_dentry tunable to
control its behaviour. By default it continues the traditional
behaviour, but when the tunable is enabled, we signal that an unused
dentry should be freed immediately, releasing its inode reference, and
so allowing that inode to be deleted if no longer in use.

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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