On Thu, 30 May 2024 20:14:17 -0400 Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Couple of questions: > > > > 1. In future with your on-demand kstack allocation feature, will these > > metrics still be useful? (I think so but I want to know your take) I do think the changelog for this patch should reference the dynamic stack feature. It strengthens the justification for adding this patch. > It depends on how on-demand allocation is implemented. On hardware > that supports faults on kernel stacks, we will have other metrics that > show the total number of pages allocated for stacks. On hardware where > faults are not supported, we will most likely have some optimization > where only some threads are extended, and for those, these metrics > will still be very useful. Also useful changelog info for this patch. Pasha, could you please prepare some additional text which I can paste in? Thanks.
