newly-generated files for innermost part of the parity bit
generation which, for AVX512, uses the mm512_permutex2var_epi8
instruction and for 128-bit (aarch64) the mm_alignr_epi8 (vextq_s8) in
the computation corresponding to each non-zero bit of the H matrix.
It is generated with ldpctest -n0 -g1. the changes for this are in a
future MR. I did these changes to compare with the GPU version
(ldpc_encoder_cuda), so that the CPU version is as fast as possible. The
generator will come when we merge the GPU encoder/decoder which also has
a generator for the CUDA version. it was difficult to extract the
changes in ldpctest/ldpc_encoder.c so I just took the generated file.
This allows for removing a very large memcpy and reduces the memory
demand for the parity matrix computation. For the moment this is limited
to largest case in BG1, namely Zc=384. This is the only format used when
the number of segments after codeblock segmentation is large (>8). This
improves the timing required for ldpc parity bits generation by more
than a factor 2 with AVX512. This significantly reduces the total time
to generate the DLSCH/PDSCH
RF emulator and improvements of the timers
RF emulator:
Add an RF library emulating a real device without the need of a real
device. This is thought to enable using phy-test without requiring a
radio device or channel simulation. The library synchronizes on the
real time clock, drops TX and generate noise on RX. Noise generation
can be disabled and the noise level configured.
Timers improvements:
- Fix standard deviation for merged timers
- Add display of ULSCH decoding timers
- Add decoding timer in AAL
Variables 'harq_pid', 'ulsch_id' and 'C' of the segment decoder
interface were not used any more by the implementations and set to zero
by all the callers.
Then it is more relevant and compliant to remove them.
Rename the library to reflect that it's more a generic AAL driver than
specifically for AAL. To this end, rename some documentation.
As of this commit, the options are still called nrLDPC_coding_t2. The
next commit will correct this.
Co-authored-by: Xin Zhe Khooi <khooixz@comp.nus.edu.sg>
feat(LDPCImplementation.md): Fix documentation
Few ambiguities and outdated names were found in the LDPC documentation
by Vlademir Brusse (see in the devel mailing list).
- Outdated names of the functions of the segment coding interface.
- Ambiguity about loading of the segment coding libraries.
The DPDK driver may directly provide the internal HW mbuf in the dequeued structure.
So don't try to free the mbufs from that dequeued structure, but the ones we allocated.
Add physim tests into ctest framework
Convert physim testcases listed in
cmake_targets/autotests/test_case_list.xml into ctest. Note: Tests for
dlsim_tm4 are excluded, due to compilation issues.
CTest evaluates success based on return code: '0' = pass, non-zero =
fail. For some simulators, the return code is non-zero even when the
test is successful (as indicated by success messages in the test logs).
For some simulators, the return code is always '0'. This inconsistency
has been address in the first two commits of this MR.
To build and execute these tests:
- using cmake
cd openairinterface5g
mkdir build && cd build # you can also do that in cmake_targets/ran_build/build
cmake .. -GNinja -DENABLE_PHYSIM_TESTS=ON && ninja tests
ctest
- using build_oai: physim-related ctests are activated when PHY
simulators are built (use build_oai with '-P' or '--phy_simulators'
option)
cd openairinterface5g/cmake_targets
./build_oai --ninja --phy_simulators
cd ran_build/build
ctest
Link to newly created 4g and 5g RAN-Physim-Cluster pipelines:
- RAN-Physim-Cluster-4G: https://jenkins-oai.eurecom.fr/job/RAN-Physim-Cluster-4G/
- RAN-Physim-Cluster-5G: https://jenkins-oai.eurecom.fr/job/RAN-Physim-Cluster-5G/
Initially we were testing SNR from -3 to 7 dB, in recent runs PUCCH test
succeeds at SNR = 0 or 1 dB. Starting at higher SNR helps to reduce test
runtime. Set maximum SNR to 7dB, as it was done in the initial test scenario,
to ensure that possible performance degradation is detected.
Convert physim testcases defined in cmake_targets/autotests/test_case_list.xml
into CTest based tests. These test are activated when '-DENABLE_PHYSIM_TESTS=ON'
CMake flag is set.
Note: Tests for dlsim_tm4 are excluded, due to compilation issues.
CTest evaluates success based on return code: '0' = pass, non-zero = fail.
The following table outlines the physim executables, their success expressions
(`expr_true`), and the return codes for success (`ret_success`) and failure
(`ret_fail`). The `expr_true` is used in test_case_list.xml to check for test
results.
| test_exec | expr_true | ret_succ | ret_fail |
| ------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ----------------- |
| dlsim | passed | 0 | -1 |
| ulsim | passed | 0 (ret) | 1 (ret) |
| ldpctest | BLER 0.000000 | 0 | 1 |
| polartest | BLER= 0.000000 | 0 | 1 |
| nr_pbchsim | PBCH test OK | 0 | 1 |
| nr_dlsim | PDSCH test OK | 0 | 1 |
| smallblocktest| BLER= 0.000000 | 0 | 1 |
| nr_ulschsim | PUSCH test OK | 0 (n_errors) | n_errors |
| nr_pucchsim | PUCCH test OK | 0 | 1 |
| nr_ulsim | PUSCH test OK | 0 (ret) | -1 (ret) |
| nr_prachsim | PRACH test OK | 0 (prach_errors)| > 0 (prach_errors)|
| nr_psbchsim | PSBCH test OK | 0 (errors) | > 0 (errors) |
Add CMake flag "ENABLE_PHYSIM_TESTS=ON" when building OAI with "-P"
or "--phy_simulators" option. This allows physim-related ctest to
be executed from build directory.
Add dependency on coding lib for all 4G physims
- Updated polartest, smallblocktest, and ldpctest to check BLER and return
appropriate status:
- Returns '0' if BLER equals 0.000000 (indicating success).
- Returns '1' for all other BLER values (indicating failure).
- This change improves consistency in return values across the test physims.
Raymond Knopp