Kernel Stack Sizes

[Peter Maas]

> Just my $0.02.
>
> -- 
> Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis at surry.net>

In a more technical responce.  Having the stack size larger than 4K in most
cases is not what the developer intended. This change in the kernel has
shown that some drivers could have possibly gotten bigger than the previous
limit anyway, an many fixes have been applyed to the kernel, this will
hopefully bring a higher level of stablity.
Myself I use the nv driver and the nvidia driver on my boxes, the nv driver
is slow and doesnt accelerate, but it doesnt lock up, on the other hand the
nvidia driver is fast, had great 3d acceleration, and randomly deadlocks my
box! Since this driver is using over 4K of stack space, when nvidia fixes
this, my assumption is that the driver will be more stable.
<rant>
This is not really different than any other OS vendor. I remember upgrading
a service pack on my windows box once, and my old video drivers no longer
worked, I had to upgrade to the newest version, which the vendor released a
few days after the service pack came out. Tell Nvidia to release a new
driver. If nvidia releases a crappy driver for linux and a good driver for
windows, linux will look crappy, demand the best.
</rant>


Peter