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-rw-r--r--docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst37
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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/10-yardstick-user-interface.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/10-yardstick-user-interface.rst
index cadec78ef..76890b29a 100644
--- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/10-yardstick-user-interface.rst
+++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/10-yardstick-user-interface.rst
@@ -16,15 +16,19 @@ Command
Description
===========
-1. When the command is triggered using the task-id and the testcase
-name provided the respective values are retrieved from the
-database (influxdb in this particular case).
+1. When the command is triggered, the relevant values for the
+ provided task-id and testcase name are retrieved from the
+ database (`InfluxDB`_ in this particular case).
-2. The values are then formatted and then provided to the html
-template framed with complete html body using Django Framework.
+2. The values are then formatted and provided to the html
+ template to be rendered using `Jinja2`_.
-3. Then the whole template is written into a html file.
+3. Then the rendered template is written into a html file.
The graph is framed with Timestamp on x-axis and output values
(differ from testcase to testcase) on y-axis with the help of
-"Highcharts".
+`Highcharts`_.
+
+.. _InfluxDB: https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/
+.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/
+.. _Highcharts: https://www.highcharts.com/products/highcharts/
diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst
index 721dba9a9..72b1c4bbc 100644
--- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst
+++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst
@@ -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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^