ext4: Speedup ext4 orphan inode handling

Ext4 orphan inode handling is a bottleneck for workloads which heavily
truncate / unlink small files since it contends on the global
s_orphan_mutex lock (and generally it's difficult to improve scalability
of the ondisk linked list of orphaned inodes).

This patch implements new way of handling orphan inodes. Instead of
linking orphaned inode into a linked list, we store it's inode number in
a new special file which we call "orphan file". Only if there's no more
space in the orphan file (too many inodes are currently orphaned) we
fall back to using old style linked list. Currently we protect
operations in the orphan file with a spinlock for simplicity but even in
this setting we can substantially reduce the length of the critical
section and thus speedup some workloads. In the next patch we improve
this by making orphan handling lockless.

Note that the change is backwards compatible when the filesystem is
clean - the existence of the orphan file is a compat feature, we set
another ro-compat feature indicating orphan file needs scanning for
orphaned inodes when mounting filesystem read-write. This ro-compat
feature gets cleared on unmount / remount read-only.

Some performance data from 80 CPU Xeon Server with 512 GB of RAM,
filesystem located on SSD, average of 5 runs:

stress-orphan (microbenchmark truncating files byte-by-byte from N
processes in parallel)

Threads Time            Time
        Vanilla         Patched
  1       1.057200        0.945600
  2       1.680400        1.331800
  4       2.547000        1.995000
  8       7.049400        6.424200
 16      14.827800       14.937600
 32      40.948200       33.038200
 64      87.787400       60.823600
128     206.504000      122.941400

So we can see significant wins all over the board.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816095713.16537-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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