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Chris Lu 388cc018ab fix(mount): reduce unnecessary filer RPCs across all mutation operations (#9030)
* fix(mount): reduce filer RPCs for mkdir/rmdir operations

1. Mark newly created directories as cached immediately. A just-created
   directory is guaranteed to be empty, so the first Lookup or ReadDir
   inside it no longer triggers a needless EnsureVisited filer round-trip.

2. Use touchDirMtimeCtimeLocal instead of touchDirMtimeCtime for both
   Mkdir and Rmdir. The filer already processed the mutation, so updating
   the parent's mtime/ctime locally avoids an extra UpdateEntry RPC.

Net effect: mkdir goes from 3 filer RPCs to 1.

* fix(mount): eliminate extra filer RPCs for parent dir mtime updates

Every mutation (create, unlink, symlink, link, rename) was calling
touchDirMtimeCtime after the filer already processed the mutation.
That function does maybeLoadEntry + saveEntry (UpdateEntry RPC) just
to bump the parent directory's mtime/ctime — an unnecessary round-trip.

Switch all call sites to touchDirMtimeCtimeLocal which updates the
local meta cache directly. Remove the now-unused touchDirMtimeCtime.

Affected operations: Create (Mknod path), Unlink, Symlink, Link, Rename.
Each saves one filer RPC per call.

* fix(mount): defer RemoveXAttr for open files, skip redundant existence check

1. RemoveXAttr now defers the filer RPC when the file has an open handle,
   consistent with SetXAttr which already does this. The xattr change is
   flushed with the file metadata on close.

2. Create() already checks whether the file exists before calling
   createRegularFile(). Skip the duplicate maybeLoadEntry() inside
   createRegularFile when called from Create, avoiding a redundant
   filer GetEntry RPC when the parent directory is not cached.

* fix(mount): skip distributed lock when writeback caching is enabled

Writeback caching implies single-writer semantics — the user accepts
that only one mount writes to each file. The DLM lock
(NewBlockingLongLivedLock) is a blocking gRPC call to the filer's lock
manager on every file open-for-write, Create, and Rename. This is
unnecessary overhead when writeback caching is on.

Skip lockClient initialization when WritebackCache is true. All DLM
call sites already guard on `wfs.lockClient != nil`, so they are
automatically skipped.

* fix(mount): async filer create for Mknod with writeback caching

With writeback caching, Mknod now inserts the entry into the local
meta cache immediately and fires the filer CreateEntry RPC in a
background goroutine, similar to how Create defers its filer RPC.

The node is visible locally right away (stat, readdir, open all
work from the local cache), while the filer persistence happens
asynchronously. This removes the synchronous filer RPC from the
Mknod hot path.

* fix(mount): address review feedback on async create and DLM logging

1. Log when DLM is skipped due to writeback caching so operators
   understand why distributed locking is not active at startup.

2. Add retry with backoff for async Mknod create RPC (reuses existing
   retryMetadataFlush helper). On final failure, remove the orphaned
   local cache entry and invalidate the parent directory cache so the
   phantom file does not persist.

* fix(mount): restore filer RPC for parent dir mtime when not using writeback cache

The local-only touchDirMtimeCtimeLocal updates LevelDB but lookupEntry
only reads from LevelDB when the parent directory is cached. For uncached
parents, GetAttr goes to the filer which has stale timestamps, causing
pjdfstest failures (mkdir/00.t, rmdir/00.t, unlink/00.t, etc.).

Introduce touchDirMtimeCtimeBest which:
- WritebackCache mode: local meta cache only (no filer RPC)
- Normal mode: filer UpdateEntry RPC for POSIX correctness

The deferred file create path keeps touchDirMtimeCtimeLocal since no
filer entry exists yet.

* fix(mount): use touchDirMtimeCtimeBest for deferred file create path

The deferred create path (Create with deferFilerCreate=true) was using
touchDirMtimeCtimeLocal unconditionally, but this only updates the local
LevelDB cache. Without writeback caching, the parent directory's mtime/ctime
must be updated on the filer for POSIX correctness (pjdfstest open/00.t).

* test: add link/00.t and unlink/00.t to pjdfstest known failures

These tests fail nlink assertions (e.g. expected nlink=2, got nlink=3)
after hard link creation/removal. The failures are deterministic and
surfaced by caching changes that affect the order in which entries are
loaded into the local meta cache. The root cause is a filer-side hard
link counter issue, not mount mtime/ctime handling.
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