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authorMytnyk, Volodymyr <volodymyrx.mytnyk@intel.com>2018-11-08 08:44:20 +0000
committerVolodymyr Mytnyk <volodymyrx.mytnyk@intel.com>2018-11-20 14:02:20 +0000
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parent11bfaf23160da0f0391a2152dddb19b3a0bae766 (diff)
Make VM machine type as a user configuration
For backward compatibility, the default value of this option has been left unchanged. JIRA: YARDSTICK-1528 Change-Id: I42ceca96501f1136cba27d85c2d82240bd45c10c Signed-off-by: Mytnyk, Volodymyr <volodymyrx.mytnyk@intel.com>
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@@ -434,6 +434,43 @@ There two types of Standalone contexts available: OVS-DPDK and SRIOV.
OVS-DPDK uses OVS network with DPDK drivers.
SRIOV enables network traffic to bypass the software switch layer of the Hyper-V stack.
+Emulated machine type
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+For better performance test results of emulated VM spawned by Yardstick SA
+context (OvS-DPDK/SRIOV), it may be important to control the emulated machine
+type used by QEMU emulator. This attribute can be configured via TC definition
+in ``contexts`` section under ``extra_specs`` configuration.
+
+For example:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ contexts:
+ ...
+ - type: StandaloneSriov
+ ...
+ flavor:
+ ...
+ extra_specs:
+ ...
+ machine_type: pc-i440fx-bionic
+
+Where, ``machine_type`` can be set to one of the emulated machine type
+supported by QEMU running on SUT platform. To get full list of supported
+emulated machine types, the following command can be used on the target SUT
+host.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ # qemu-system-x86_64 -machine ?
+
+By default, the ``machine_type`` option is set to ``pc-i440fx-xenial`` which is
+suitable for running Ubuntu 16.04 VM image. So, if this type is not supported
+by the target platform or another VM image is used for stand alone (SA) context
+VM (e.g.: ``bionic`` image for Ubuntu 18.04), this configuration should be
+changed accordingly.
+
Standalone with OVS-DPDK
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^