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Add new kstat for monitoring time in dmu_tx_assign

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Add new kstat for monitoring time in dmu_tx_assign

This change adds a new kstat to gain some visibility into the amount of
time spent in each call to dmu_tx_assign. A histogram is exported via
a new dmu_tx_assign_histogram-$POOLNAME file. The information contained
in this histogram is the frequency dmu_tx_assign took to complete given
an interval range. For example, given the below histogram file:

$ cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/dmu_tx_assign_histogram-tank
12 1 0x01 32 1536 19792068076691 20516481514522
name                            type data
1 us                            4    859
2 us                            4    252
4 us                            4    171
8 us                            4    2
16 us                           4    0
32 us                           4    2
64 us                           4    0
128 us                          4    0
256 us                          4    0
512 us                          4    0
1024 us                         4    0
2048 us                         4    0
4096 us                         4    0
8192 us                         4    0
16384 us                        4    0
32768 us                        4    1
65536 us                        4    1
131072 us                       4    1
262144 us                       4    4
524288 us                       4    0
1048576 us                      4    0
2097152 us                      4    0
4194304 us                      4    0
8388608 us                      4    0
16777216 us                     4    0
33554432 us                     4    0
67108864 us                     4    0
134217728 us                    4    0
268435456 us                    4    0
536870912 us                    4    0
1073741824 us                   4    0
2147483648 us                   4    0

one can see most calls to dmu_tx_assign completed in 32us or less, but a
few outliers did not. Specifically, 4 of the calls took between 262144us
and 131072us. This information is difficult, if not impossible, to gather
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1584

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