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doc: refer to default directory for hugepages

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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>
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Sarosh Arif 2020-06-23 10:55:59 +05:00 committed by Thomas Monjalon
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doc/guides/faq/faq.rst
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@ -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.

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doc/guides/nics/thunderx.rst
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@ -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):