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Let the garbage collector use json merge patch when SMP is not supported
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Let garbage collector fallback to use json merge patch when strategic merge patch returns 415. This enables orphan delete on custom resources.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes#56348
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
This PR is developed based on https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56595. Ref https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56606 for more information.
**Release note**:
```release-note
Orphan delete is now supported for custom resources
```
/sig api-machinery
Allow the garbage collector to tolerate partial discovery failures. On a
partial failure, use whatever was discovered, log the failures, and
allow the resync logic to try again later.
Fixes#55022.
For 1.8 this will be off by default. In 1.9 it will be on by default.
Add tests and rename some fields to use the `chunking` terminology.
Note that the pager may be used for other things besides chunking.
Add a feature gate in the apiserver to control whether paging can be
used. Add controls to the storage factory that allow it to be disabled
per resource. Use a JSON encoded continuation token that can be
versioned. Create a 410 error if the continuation token is expired.
Adds GetContinue() to ListMeta.
Improve GC discovery sync performance by only syncing when discovered
resource diffs are detected. Before, the GC worker pool was shut down
and monitors resynced unconditionally every sync period, leading to
significant processing delays causing test flakes where otherwise
reasonable GC timeouts were being exceeded.
Related to https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49966.
Enhance the garbage collector to periodically refresh the resources it
monitors (via discovery) to enable custom resource definition GC.
This implementation caches Unstructured structs for any kinds not
covered by a shared informer. The existing meta-only codec only supports
compiled types; an improved codec which supports arbitrary types could
be introduced to optimize caching to store only metadata for all
non-informer types.
Allow the list of resources the garbage collector controller should
ignore to be customizable, so downstream integrators can add their own
resources to the list, if necessary.
