Releasing Cloned Blocks

While investigating a severe performance issue of buffer busy waits and latch free - cache buffer chains, I noticed that for a particular 1-row table with the majority of the BBW, there was a large number of cloned blocks. (same latch, many entries w/ touch count=1). I also noticed that fairly quickly after the wait contention subsided, that the number of tcn=1 blocks were basically gone.
Is there a function/command/etc. that I could force/"request" Oracle cleanup up any cloned blocks no longer being used?

metalink document suggests Bug 5387030: AUTOMATIC TUNING OF UNDO_RETENTION CAUSING SPACE PROBLEMS, as per the documents there are 3 workarounds & one of them I opted for was Set the autoextend and maxsize attribute of each datafile in the undo ts so it is autoextensible and its maxsize is equal to its current size so the undo tablespace now has the autoextend attribute but does not autoend:
alter database datafile '<datafile_flename>' autoextend on maxsize <current_size>;
With this setting, v$undostat.tuned_undoretention is not calculated based on a percentage of the undo tablespace size, instead v$undostat.tuned_undoretention is set to the maximum of: maxquerylen secs + 300 undo_retention specified in init.ora
As I monitor the undo tablespace, the same query now returns
SQL> select sum(bytes)/1024/1024/1024 Gb, status from dba_undo_extents group by status;
GB STATUS
42.399292 EXPIRED
.0625 ACTIVE
SQL> select begin_time, end_time, undoblks, tuned_undoretention, maxquerylen from v$undostat ;
this is a partial output
BEGIN_TIM END_TIME UNDOBLKS T UNED_UNDORETENTION MAXQUERYLEN
11-APR- 11 11-APR-11 4 900 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 9 900 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 11 900 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 7 900 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 106 900 0
previously the same query had given different values for tuned_undoretention
SQL> select begin_time, end_time, undoblks, tuned_undoretention, maxquerylen, maxqueryid from v$undostat;
BEGIN_TIM END_TIME UNDOBLKS TUNED_UNDORETENTION MAXQUERYLEN
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 1 900 0
*11-APR-11 11-APR-11 1 900 0--------------------> This is where the workaround started to effect*
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 3580 345600 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 1 345600 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 40 345600 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 1 345600 0
11-APR-11 11-APR-11 1 345600 0
Any suggestions on how the tuned_undoretention works?

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