[Lhms-devel] Re: Help text for memory model config section?

Mike Kravetz kravetz at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 7 05:53:10 EST 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:32:38AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> At the moment our LMBs are 16MB in size, so SECTION_SIZE_BITS looks ok.

I think someone once told me that LMB size is 'adjusted' based on the
amount of memory in the system?  The more memory, the bigger the LMBs.
But, it was possible to have LMBs as small as 16MB.  Does that sound
correct?

As a data point, my OpenPower 720 with 8GB of memory has 32MB LMBs.

-- 
Mike



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