From: Sarosh Arif Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 05:55:59 +0000 (+0500) Subject: doc: refer to default directory for hugepages X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c14ef1ecf48532b970a7076f8f38528f66c4ecee;p=dpdk.git doc: refer to default directory for hugepages Change /dev/huge to /dev/hugepages which is the default directory on most systems. Bugzilla ID: 492 Signed-off-by: Sarosh Arif --- diff --git a/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst b/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst index f19c1389b6..bb1df7dc8a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst +++ b/doc/guides/faq/faq.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The number of pages allocated can be seen by executing the following command:: Once all the pages are mmapped by an application, they stay that way. If you start a test application with less than the maximum, then you have free pages. -When you stop and restart the test application, it looks to see if the pages are available in the ``/dev/huge`` directory and mmaps them. +When you stop and restart the test application, it looks to see if the pages are available in the ``/dev/hugepages`` directory and mmaps them. If you look in the directory, you will see ``n`` number of 2M pages files. If you specified 1024, you will see 1024 page files. These are then placed in memory segments to get contiguous memory. diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst b/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst index f42133e546..b1ef9eba59 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ This section provides instructions to configure SR-IOV with Linux OS. -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup_thunder \ -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \ -serial stdio \ - -mem-path /dev/huge + -mem-path /dev/hugepages #. Enable **VFIO-NOIOMMU** mode (optional):