From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDD046B007B for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:07:31 -0500 From: Robin Holt Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] v3 Define memory_block_size_bytes for powerpc/pseries Message-ID: <20101003180731.GT14064@sgi.com> References: <4CA62700.7010809@austin.ibm.com> <4CA62A0A.4050406@austin.ibm.com> <20101003175500.GE7896@balbir.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101003175500.GE7896@balbir.in.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Balbir Singh Cc: Nathan Fontenot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Greg KH , Dave Hansen , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Robin Holt , steiner@sgi.com List-ID: On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 11:25:00PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > * Nathan Fontenot [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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org