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From: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, sthemmin@microsoft.com,
	jerinj@marvell.com, mczekaj@marvell.com,
	marko.kovacevic@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org, Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif@emumba.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix references to /dev/huge
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:55:59 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200623055559.19068-1-sarosh.arif@emumba.com> (raw)

change /dev/huge to /dev/hugepages

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 f19c1389b..bb1df7dc8 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 f42133e54..b1ef9eba5 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):
 
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23  5:55 Sarosh Arif [this message]
2020-07-05 20:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-06  8:01   ` Sarosh Arif
2020-07-30 23:31     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-28 10:17   ` Burakov, Anatoly

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