Re: [PATCH 7/9] v3 Define memory_block_size_bytes forpowerpc/pseries

From: Robin Holt
Date: Sun Oct 03 2010 - 14:07:49 EST


On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 11:25:00PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> * Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-10-01 13:35:54]:
>
> > Define a version of memory_block_size_bytes() for powerpc/pseries such that
> > a memory block spans an entire lmb.
>
> I hope I am not missing anything obvious, but why not just call it
> lmb_size, why do we need memblock_size?
>
> Is lmb_size == memblock_size after your changes true for all
> platforms?

What is an lmb? I don't recall anything like lmb being referred to in
the rest of the kernel.

Robin
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