From c14ef1ecf48532b970a7076f8f38528f66c4ecee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:55:59 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] 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 <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
---
doc/guides/faq/faq.rst | 2 +-
doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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):
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