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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Nandini Persad <nandinipersad361@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 04/11] doc: correct errors in Linux system requirements guide
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:26:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260114222821.87920-5-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260114222821.87920-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>

Changes:
- Fix capitalization of IBM Advance Toolchain
- Remove double spaces before "support"
- Add missing preposition "in" and article "the"
- Fix hugetlbfs mount command syntax (add -o flag and device)

Signed-off-by: Nandini Persad <nandinipersad361@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 52a840fbe9..869584c344 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
 
 *   Intel\ |reg| oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler.
 
-*   IBM\ |reg| Advance ToolChain for Powerlinux. This is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries
+*   IBM\ |reg| Advance Toolchain for Powerlinux. This is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries
     which allows users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. To install
     it, see the IBM official installation document.
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ e.g. :doc:`../nics/index`
 Running DPDK Applications
 -------------------------
 
-To run a DPDK application, some customization may be required on the target machine.
+To run a DPDK application, customization may be required on the target machine.
 
 System Software
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ System Software
 
     *   HUGETLBFS
 
-    *   PROC_PAGE_MONITOR  support
+    *   PROC_PAGE_MONITOR support
 
-    *   HPET and HPET_MMAP configuration options should also be enabled if HPET  support is required.
+    *   HPET and HPET_MMAP configuration options should also be enabled if HPET support is required.
         See the section on :ref:`High Precision Event Timer (HPET) Functionality <High_Precision_Event_Timer>` for more details.
 
 .. _linux_gsg_hugepages:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Use of Hugepages in the Linux Environment
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Hugepage support is required for the large memory pool allocation used for packet buffers
-(the HUGETLBFS option must be enabled in the running kernel as indicated the previous section).
+(the HUGETLBFS option must be enabled in the running kernel as indicated in the previous section).
 By using hugepage allocations, performance is increased since fewer pages are needed,
 and therefore less Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs, high speed translation caches),
 which reduce the time it takes to translate a virtual page address to a physical page address.
@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ However, in order to use hugepage sizes other than the default, it is necessary
 to manually create mount points for those hugepage sizes (e.g. 1GB pages).
 
 To make the hugepages of size 1GB available for DPDK use,
-following steps must be performed::
+the following steps must be performed::
 
     mkdir /mnt/huge
-    mount -t hugetlbfs pagesize=1GB /mnt/huge
+    mount -t hugetlbfs -o pagesize=1GB none /mnt/huge
 
 The mount point can be made permanent across reboots, by adding the following line to the ``/etc/fstab`` file::
 
-- 
2.51.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-14 22:28 UTC|newest]

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2024-05-13 15:59 [PATCH 0/9] reowrd in prog guide Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] doc: reword design section in contributors guidelines Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] doc: reword pmd section in prog guide Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 3/9] doc: reword argparse " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 19:01   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 4/9] doc: reword service cores " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 5/9] doc: reword trace library " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 6/9] doc: reword log " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 7/9] doc: reword cmdline " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 8/9] doc: reword stack library " Nandini Persad
2024-05-13 15:59 ` [PATCH 9/9] doc: reword rcu " Nandini Persad
2024-06-21  2:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] doc: reword pmd " Nandini Persad
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 2/9] doc: reword argparse " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:53     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-30 16:08     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 3/9] doc: reword design section in contributors guidelines Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:47     ` [PATCH] doc/design: minor cleanus Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-24 15:07       ` Thomas Monjalon
2026-03-31 22:53     ` [PATCH v2 3/9] doc: reword design section in contributors guidelines Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 4/9] doc: reword service cores section in prog guide Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:53     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:50     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 5/9] doc: reword trace library " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:54     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:49     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 6/9] doc: reword log " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:47     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 7/9] doc: reword cmdline " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:45     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 8/9] doc: reword stack library " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:36     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-21  2:32   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] doc: reword rcu " Nandini Persad
2024-06-22 14:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-03-31 22:35     ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-22 14:52   ` [PATCH v2 1/9] doc: reword pmd " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] doc: programmers guide corrections Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 01/11] doc: correct grammar and punctuation errors in ethdev guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 02/11] doc: correct grammar and typos in argparse library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 03/11] doc: correct grammar and typos in design guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 04/11] doc: correct errors in Linux system requirements guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 05/11] doc: correct grammar in service cores guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 06/11] doc: correct grammar and errors in trace library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 07/11] doc: correct typos in log " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 08/11] doc: correct errors in command-line " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 09/11] doc: correct errors in trace " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 10/11] doc: correct errors in stack " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-13 22:51   ` [PATCH v3 11/11] doc: correct errors in RCU " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] doc: programmers guide corrections Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 01/11] doc: correct grammar and punctuation errors in ethdev guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 02/11] doc: correct grammar and typos in argparse library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-19  0:50     ` fengchengwen
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 03/11] doc: correct grammar and typos in design guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 05/11] doc: correct grammar in service cores guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 06/11] doc: correct grammar and errors in trace library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:26   ` [PATCH v4 07/11] doc: correct typos in log " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v4 08/11] doc: correct errors in command-line " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v4 09/11] doc: correct errors in trace " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v4 10/11] doc: correct errors in stack " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v4 11/11] doc: correct errors in RCU " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10 ` [PATCH v5 00/54] doc: programmers guide corrections Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 01/54] doc: correct grammar and typos in argparse library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 02/54] doc: correct grammar in service cores guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 03/54] doc: correct grammar and errors in trace library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 04/54] doc: correct typos in log " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 05/54] doc: correct errors in command-line " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 06/54] doc: correct errors in trace " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 07/54] doc: correct errors in stack " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 08/54] doc: correct errors in RCU " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 09/54] doc: correct grammar and formatting in ASan guide Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 18/54] doc: correct double space in FIB guide Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 25/54] doc: correct grammar in lcore variables guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 26/54] doc: correct typo in link bonding guide Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 28/54] doc: correct grammar in LPM guide Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 30/54] doc: correct grammar in introduction Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 31/54] doc: correct grammar in mbuf library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 32/54] doc: correct grammar in membership " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 33/54] doc: correct errors in mempool " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 34/54] doc: correct style in meson unit tests guide Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 39/54] doc: correct grammar in ACL library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 40/54] doc: correct typos in packet distributor guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 41/54] doc: correct grammar in packet framework guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 42/54] doc: correct grammar in PDCP library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 43/54] doc: correct grammar in pdump " Stephen Hemminger
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2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 45/54] doc: correct grammar in profiling guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 46/54] doc: correct errors in regexdev guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 47/54] doc: correct grammar in reorder library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 48/54] doc: correct whitespace in RIB " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 49/54] doc: correct incomplete sentence in ring " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 50/54] doc: correct grammar in security " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 51/54] doc: correct hyphenation in thread safety guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 52/54] doc: correct errors in toeplitz hash library guide Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 53/54] doc: correct errors in vhost " Stephen Hemminger
2026-01-18 19:10   ` [PATCH v5 54/54] doc: correct whitespace in efficient code guide Stephen Hemminger

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