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4K stacks for everyone?4K stacks for everyone?Posted Sep 8, 2005 5:43 UTC (Thu) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325)Parent article: 4K stacks for everyone?
NDISWrapper actually requires 16K stacks for reliable operation. 8K isn't always enough.
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NDISWrapper and 4K stacks Posted Sep 9, 2005 18:57 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] NDISWrapper moving to user-space seems the clear-case best choice, here.Not only does it solve its problem with 4k kernel stacks, it also moves not only proprietary, but proprietary MSWormOS even, drivers out of kernel space into more sanely protected userspace. This sounds like exactly the sort of solution the kernel devs would prefer, because it gets those "black-box binary-only things" out of the kernel greatly simplifying and securing things. The cost is of course speed... Mode transfers between user space and kernel space take time, so proprietary-only MSWormOS based drivers will be slower. Somehow, I don't see that as being a big issue either, since the view will be that it encourages transfering to more Linux-friendly hardware, always seen as a good thing. Duncan
NDISWrapper and 4K stacks Posted Sep 15, 2005 15:36 UTC (Thu) by Luyseyal (guest, #15693) [Link] Agreed. Most ndiswrapper users seem to be wireless card users who won't be expecting stellar performance in any case.
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