A dangerous passed pawn in center

Please look at the following pawn structure.

It is a very popular pawn structure, which can come up from several openings. For example from the Semi-Tarrasch and Queen`s gambit accepted, but also from the Greenfield opening (with pawn on g6)

Normally it leads to a winning pawn endgame for black ( pawn chain f5, g6, h7 seems best)

Endgames in general would be in black`s favour cause of the outside passed pawn.

But before the endgame comes the middle game. And here the center passed pawn on the d-file can become to a strong weapon.

Here a famous example:

Spasski managed to win this position with tactics around the d-pawn.

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So what to do against such a strong weapon as a center passed pawn?

A) The attempt to stop it as soon as possible

This would have been black`s favourite position. The passed pawn would have been stopped a la Nimzowitsch very effectively by the knight and the queen side advantage soon would become evident

B) The attempt to eliminate it