From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:28:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [PATCH] Warning on hugepage-size setting in HOWTO
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[PATCH] Warning on hugepage-size setting in HOWTO

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 3b270b1d..6a7f58ed 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ mem=str		Fio can use various types of memory as the io unit buffer.
 hugepage-size=siint
 		Defines the size of a huge page. Must at least be equal
 		to the system setting, see /proc/meminfo. Defaults to 4MiB.
+		Should probably always be a multiple of megabytes, so using
+		hugepage-size=Xm is the preferred way to set this to avoid
+		setting a non-pow-2 bad value.
 
 exitall		When one job finishes, terminate the rest. The default is
 		to wait for each job to finish, sometimes that is not the