Fronthaul xran library update to F release (2. and final step towards M-plane integration)
- xran library support -> both E and F releases
- RU delay profile removed -> not used in neither of the releases
- DU delay profile updated
- one-way delay measurements support is improved/fixed in the F release.
However, not implemented here as it depends on the RU capabilities
Major improvements:
1) bbu_offload - enable packet handling on BBU cores
2) dlCpProcBurst - DL CP processing on one or more symbols
3) SRS CP processing - depends on the RU capabilities that can be
retreived via M-plane (if RU is CAT B)
4) nSecDesc - the number of section descriptors per symbol; it was hardcoded to 0 in E release;
depends on the RU capabilities that can be retreived via M-plane
5) RunSlotPrbMapBySymbolEnable - enable PRB mapping by symbol with multisection;
depends on the RU capabilities that can be retreived via M-plane
6) DSS (Dynamic Spectrum Sharing) support - depends on the RU capabilities that can be retreived via M-plane
Minor fixes in F that exist in E:
1) prach_config->nPrachFilterIdx - explained in commit ID f3045396
2) T1a_min_cp_dl - explained in the commit under title "Clarification on DU delay profile"
3) fh_config->nULRBs - explained in commit under title "Further clarification on xran E release parameters"
Removed const for prb_conf argument in oran_allocate_cplane_buffers()
function, as F release requires the not const struct for
xran_init_PrbMap_by_symbol_from_cfg() and xran_init_PrbMap_from_cfg()
even though the struct is not modified inside of these functions.
- remove xran parameter io_cfg->port logging => this parameter
is filled within xran library in both E and F releases
- PRACH offset explanation; not limited to >= max(Ntx, Nrx);
workaround done in xran to support PRACH eAxC IDs same as PUSCH eAxC IDs
- DL PRB not used in xran; UL PRB used in xran F release, therefore
removed from the patch
- these fixes should have been done in the commit ID f3045396
- removed some whitespace noise.
- cleaned up CMakeLists.txt
- reintegrated task_manager.c into thread-pool.c
- cleaned up some unnecessary code
Co-authored-by: Cedric Roux <cedric.roux@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: Mikel Irazabal <mikel.irazabal@openairinterface.com>
- identification of each parameter in fh_init and fh_config structs
- identification of unused parameters in xran library
- identification of parameters used for CAT A O-RU
=> CAT B not supported in this release
Resolve error:
nfapi/oai_integration/aerial/fapi_nvIPC.h:56:16: error: unknown type name ‘nvipc_params_t’
56 | int nvIPC_Init(nvipc_params_t nvipc_params_s);
By including the header. Also, move the definiton of the struct to the
MAC, where it is actually stored, and out of the radio common_lib.h,
since this is not a radio (split 7/8) parameter.
This commit refactors startServer to use getaddrinfo() to
prepare the socket creation. Doing so, it also adds support for
IPv6 by using AF_UNSPEC as the address family.
This commits uses getaddrinfo(3) when connecting as client to the
rfsimulator. This enables name lookups, through DNS or a hosts file.
This change makes it easier to use the simulator in a dynamic
environment like Docker or Kubernetes by only targeting the name of
the container or service.
The default values set by xran for DPDK socket memory/limit is 8192. It
is changed when the variable for the memory size, given down to xran, is
non-zero (cf also previous patch). Since the last patch, if nothing is
given in OAI configuration, OAI will pass down a size of 8192. However,
a configuration value of 0 is a valid choice (it is a pre-allocation,
DPDK will allocate dynamically), so modify the default in xran to be 0
so that all sizes, including 0, can be given to DPDK.
Note that the currently used implementation of xran will always try to
allocate this memory on NUMA node 0. If you want to use another one,
this field has to be set to 0 (no pre-allocation), and DPDK will
allocate it dynamically.
Co-authored-by: Sagar Arora <sagar.arora@openairinterface.org>
xran has a mechanism to request DPDK to allocate a configurable amount
of bytes for huge pages. We set it to 0 until now; expose this variable
through configuration, and provide a meaningful default 8192 MiB.
Provide documentation.
It is very possible that the operating system returns a file
descriptor bigger than the size of bridge->buf (MAX_FD_RFSIMU, which
is 250 as of now). As a minimum, let's fail if the socket file
descriptor is out of bounds.
A proper solution may be implemented later, if needed.
- if search fails, keeps increasing the rx gain (set by --ue-rxgain) by
3 db until USRP max rx gain
- if initial sync is success, sets the rxgain to the value of
(TARGET_RX_POWER (50) - pbch digital power in dB/RE)
making aerial shm prefix configurable (so we can use muliptle VNFs per PNF)
making the nvipc thread affinity configurable and using threadCreate.
removing aerial_vnf_nr_aerial_p7_start_thread
The actual propagation delay should not be smaller than the one specified.
A too short propagation delay might result in too early reception of Msg1, and with that in a mis-detection of the RAPID.
xran's xran_bm_init() uses rte_pktmbuf_pool_create() to allocate DPDK
buffers. For a 1x1 configuration, the number of buffers might be too
small, and rte_pktmbuf_pool_create() might fail. This commit ensures
that we increase the number of buffers to have enough even in a 1x1
configuration. This works by chosing the next power of two, which is
recommended as per DPDK documentation.
Closes-Bug: #750
