fedora 9 kernel

[a3ukasz Peb3szynski]

Hi!

I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb.
8kb stack works as good as 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper straight from livna-repo.
(atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack)
Maybe there should be 8kb stack in fedora 9 kernel ?

Greetings
Lukasz

[Ivan Quirino]

this is not a question for the fedora usability project

On Dec 3, 2007 9:26 PM, a3ukasz Peb3szynski  wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb.
> 8kb stack works as good as 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper
> straight from livna-repo.
> (atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack)
> Maybe there should be 8kb stack in fedora 9 kernel ?
>
> Greetings
> Lukasz
>
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[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 01:26 +0100, a3ukasz Peb3szynski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb.
> 8kb stack works as good as 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper straight from livna-repo.
> (atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack)
> Maybe there should be 8kb stack in fedora 9 kernel ?

Better to redirect this question to fedora-devel.  But the short answer
is that 4k stacks are quite beneficial for many other reasons (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/150580/ ).  If you just need to use your Atheros
card, there are open drivers that work with 4k stacks, like madwifi and
ath5k.  I'd suggest trying one of those out.

Dan

[Christopher Aillon]

On 12/04/2007 03:51 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 01:26 +0100, a3ukasz Peb3szynski wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb.
> > 8kb stack works as good as 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper straight from livna-repo.
> > (atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack)
> > Maybe there should be 8kb stack in fedora 9 kernel ?
>
> Better to redirect this question to fedora-devel.

Or to
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list

[Matej Cepl]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:26:23 +0100, Lukasz Peb3szynski 
scripst:
> I wonder why fedora kernel's stack is 4 kb. 8kb stack works as good as
> 4kb and there's ability to install ndiswrapper straight from livna-repo.
> (atheros drivers crash on 4 kb stack) Maybe there should be 8kb stack in
> fedora 9 kernel ?

Most likely not -- I was asking this couple of times and after wonderful 
enlighting discussion with Jakub Jelinek about this, it was pretty clear 
to me a) it will never happen, b) most of the problems ndiswrapper/
madwifi/et al. have should be solvable even with 4k stack. Just somebody 
needs to know how (and I am certainly not the one, in case you would like 
to ask me).

Matěj