This reverts a change in commit
ccba7c875d. There is no real reason to
show this warning (the gNB will work just fine, simply not schedule
since no free HARQ) and it makes users unsure.
- come straight to point: how to clone (don't talk about git config)
- refer to contributing documentation where necessary instead of
repeating information
- CellGroupConfig is handled through DU (hence MAC)
- mention number of DUs/CU-UPs handled per CU-CP
- mention number of UEs handled
- take out BWPs, as we don't support it properly
- typos
Update instructions and CI for cross-compilation on Ubuntu 22.
Note that for the dockerfile, we use egrep -L which has changed and does
not exit with code 0 on no match. Instead, use -vqz to invert return
code (0 if nothing found, otherwise 1).
This updates all images in the CI to Ubuntu 22. It also updates
corresponding documentation. Remove python(2) from the image, as it is
not needed. Update documentation.
It seems that the gcc coming in Ubuntu 22 does not like
stack-protector-strong, so remove it as well.
Since we compile Flexric, which does not support Ubuntu 22's default
gcc-11 (it hits a compile bug), switch to gcc-12 manually.
Since we update the compiler, we also need to be careful to use the right
address sanitizer version (which is bundled with the compiler version).
To avoid a reinstallation of the wrong asan version in target images, we
modify Ubuntu 22 targets to copy libasan from the base image. This is necessary
since we use update-alternative in the base image, but we don't want to
install compilers in the target images to use update-alternatives to
install the right asan version... This should be undone when switching
to Ubuntu 24 in the future, as it will have a newer default gcc version,
such that we don't need to update the compile in the first place.
Upgrade libpython in lteUE for U22 upgrade to make it compatible with
UHD.
A number of warnings appear when compiling flexric with gcc-12, which we
use in the next commit. Those have been fixed upstream. Switch to the
updated version to avoid warnings.
It seems libatlas-base-dev provided an `enum CBLAS_TRANSPOSE`, but we
don't install it anymore. Now, in Ubuntu, there is only a typedef'd
version in cblas.h; for RHEL(-derivatives), the same typedef'd version
is in cblas/cblas.h.
Ubuntu 18.04 is now in "Extended Security Maintenance", but otherwise
gets no updates. Remove it from supported distributions (regarding
installing packages); users can of course still use it.
Users are encouraged to upgrade to Ubuntu 20+.
Apart from the obvious change of adding ubuntu24.04 to supported
distributions, we need to remove liblapacke-dev as it is incompatible
with libatlas3-base. Installing both aborts with:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
liblapacke : Breaks: libatlas3-base (< 3.10.3-14) but 3.10.3-13ubuntu1 is to be installed
It seems that we don't need it though, as liblapacke-dev installs the
right atlas library as a dependency.
Avoid UBSan error:
openair1/PHY/NR_ESTIMATION/nr_measurements_gNB.c:183:22: runtime error: signed integer overflow: 2122747784 + 27403601 cannot be represented in type 'int'
avoid UBsan error:
openair1/PHY/NR_TRANSPORT/pucch_rx.c:266:21: runtime error: signed integer overflow: 2113190528 + 117251752 cannot be represented in type 'int'
avoid UBsan error:
openair1/PHY/NR_TRANSPORT/nr_ulsch_demodulation.c:459:77: runtime error: signed integer overflo w: 2009540296 + 668087372 cannot be represented in type 'int'
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
With the capabilities now given as part of this MR, it happens that when
checking the "docker compose config", the container_name might not be
close to the service name. Something like
service:
cap_drop:
...
cap_add:
...
container_name:
This is inconvenient, as the previous grep for the service name + 3
lines might not cover the service name. To circumvent this, give the
service name directly in "docker compose config". (no clue why it has
not been done like this from the start)
- sa_b200_gnb
- sa_aw2s_gnb
- sa_e1_b200
- sa_f1_b200
- sa_sc_b200_gnb
- nsa_b200_gnb
By default, the container has no access to /dev. Mount all USB devices
into the container to ease usability: by default, USB devices are
mounted under /dev/bus/usb using the bus ID, which is different on every
system and might change on reboots or with (un-)plugging USB devices.
Hence, mount all USB; the process has not many capabilities anyway, and
thus might not do much harm.
A proper solution would be to write a udev rule to mount a device using
its vendor and product ID, and only mount the corresponding device into
the container.
- SA 2x2 tests on 60 and 100 MHz
- N310-based OAI gNB + UE
Give SYS_NICE and IPC_LOCK for performance. On the UE side, give
NET_ADMIN (for interface bringup) and NET_RAW (for ping an TUN).
It might be desirable to run the UE without superuser rights. More
concretely, it might run without NET_ADMIN. In this case, various
corresponding operations on the TUN socket fd might fail. In this
commit,
- improve error reports to make them more clear
- do not automatically exit(1), but return from the function to ensure
continuity of the softmodem
Use common threadCreate() function to create P7 thread with high(er)
priority. Remove old calls to set_priority(), as this is already done
with threadCreate().
Use common threadCreate() function to create P7 thread with high(er)
priority. Remove old calls to set_priority(), as this is already done
with threadCreate().
Use common threadCreate() function to create P7 thread with high(er)
priority. Remove old calls to set_priority(), as this is already done
with threadCreate().
The main thread of nr-uesoftmodem (executing main()) is mostly working;
it is thus not necessary to set high priority. Instead, the threads
created with threadCreate() will receive higher priority, if possible
(as determined by the availability of SYS_NICE capability).
To inform if SYS_NICE is not present, print a warning in main().
SYS_NICE is a capability that allows a process to set thread affinity
and priority, among other things (see capabilities(7) for more info).
In this commit, add a function that allows to determine if the process
has this capability, and try to change the thread affinity and priority,
if requested. If the capability does not exist, the function will simply
not attempt to change the corresponding thread attributes.
To determine if the process has SYS_NICE, libcap can be used. However,
it might not be installed by default. To avoid requiring another
dependency, if we detect that libcap is not present, use a workaround by
try to set a real-time scheduling policy; if it's present, or can be
changed, we assume that the process has SYS_NICE (and clean up, if
relevant).
Simplify reading of capabilities
set_latency_target() attempts to set keep "low latency" by
- writing a specific latency to /dev/cpu_dma_latency
- setting manually the minimum CPU processor frequency to be the maximum
There is no functionality to undo this after stopping the softmodem(s),
and most users are probably not even aware that OAI does this. It is
generally preferable to set this beforehand using a governor or by
disabling sleep states (as outlined in the tutorial, and in a follow-up
commit in the performance tuning docs).
The previous mlockall() call, to lock memory to RAM, is retained in a
new function. There were additional mlockall() calls, which have been
replaced with lock_memory_to_ram(), where necessary.
Print a clear error if a config file does not exist (unclear previously,
when the user would get a confusing, unspecific, "file I/O error" on
line 0)
I tried to free the memory that had been allocated at that point, and
verified that using the address sanitizer. Nevertheless, the function
does too much, and is too complicated for refactoring.
Use correct baseTag for Unit Tests build in execution:
- if build_helper or othe files changed, which would trigger rebuild of
ran-base, use the corresponding ci-temp tag
- use that tag consistently afterwards
38.321 6.1.3.1 says: "The size of the RLC headers and MAC subheaders are
not considered in the buffer size computation" [for BSR]. However, prior
to this commit, we take the size signaled of the BSR and schedule the UE
with that amount of data, making it impossible for the UE to transmit
all its data at once (because it is the size signaled + headers).
In this commit, over-estimate the buffer status size. As we cannot know
the exact number and size of headers, we simply use "BSR size + n", as
done in function overestim_bsr_index().
It can happen that in the current DL slot, we cannot send an allocation
for Msg3 in a later UL slot. Up to this commit, MAC printed a warning.
However, this is not really a warning, as it will likely work in the
next or a later slot. So demote this to debug.
Robert Schmidt