Configure DigitalBeamTable in OAI and pass down to Aerial L1
With this MR it will be possible to define a Beamtable in OAI and pass it down
to a L1 (Aerial or OAI) which then will either use them locally to apply
static beamforming (Split 8 with USRP) or pass them down to the RU using 7.2
split with Section Extension 1.
Change Aerial to pack directly in nvIPC message buffer
This MR changes the Aerial pack/send procedures to pack the messages
directly into the nvIPC message buffers.
This saves the use of some memcopy calls, as well as clean up the code.
The P7 message packing/send is now only handled in the file
`fapi_nv_p7.c`
Add 3 functions in fapi_nvIPC.c to allow message allocation, release and
send from fapi_vnf_p7.c
Add 2 functions to access the memory pool sizes allocated from nvIPC, as
we can't use sizeof to report the buffer size to the packing functions
Remove now unused aerial_send_P5_msg , aerial_send_P7_msg and
aerial_send_P7_msg_with_data functions
Now Aerial only has one function to handle sending P5 and another to
send P7 messages
Remove fapi_phy_api_msg from fapi_nvIPC.h as it is duplicated in
nr_fapi.h
Prevent the PNF from sending P7 messages after sending a STOP.indication
Upon stopping the PNF, when sending the STOP.indication to the VNF, set
pnf_p7->terminate to 1.
Add a check on the PNF P7 send functions to not send a message after
pnf_p7->terminate is set.
This prevents the PNF from sending SLOT.indications after stopping,
which sometimes was causing the VNF to process a SLOT.indication after
it had received the indication to STOP.
Also, this MR adds a sanity check on the VNF P7 message handler to
ignore any P7 messages it receives after having it's own terminate flag
set to 1
This MR closes issue #1045
Upon stopping the PNF, when sending the STOP.indication to the VNF, set pnf_p7->terminate to 1.
Add a check on the PNF P7 send functions to not send a message after pnf_p7->terminate is set
Current FAPI slot_ahead value for WLS is too low for UL, as we see these
errors:
[NR_MAC] Unexpected ULSCH HARQ PID 14 (have 3) for RNTI 0xa68e
[NR_MAC] UE a68e expected HARQ pid 3 feedback at 586. 7, but is at 587.17 instead (HARQ feedback is in the past)
Similarly to nFAPI, scale it by mu (for mu=1 => slot_ahead=2) to give
additional time, which removes these warnings at the VNF.
Implementation of STOP exchange
This implements the STOP.request/indication for all 3 transport mechanisms, the
VNF will send the STOP.request to the PNF, indicating it will disconnect, and
await a STOP.indication from the PNF
The WLS VNF is reworked to be able to start before the PNF, by calling call
rte_eal_init and rte_dev_probe to determine if dpdk has been initialized
properly, before calling rte_eal_init in the intended process when it is
appropriate to do so
Reimplement nFAPI message exchange between L1 and L2 following the
changes in parent commit removing msgDataTx.
Avoid direct calls and use NR_IF_module fptrs to avoid linking problems.
allowing to remove some function definitions that are not needed.
This implements the STOP.request/indication for all 3 transport mechanisms, the VNF will send the STOP.request to the PNF, indicating it will disconnect, and await a STOP.indication from the PNF
The WLS VNF is reworked to be able to start before the PNF, by calling call rte_eal_init and rte_dev_probe to determine if dpdk has been initialized properly, before calling rte_eal_init in the intended process when it is appropriate to do so
The WLS VNF is reworked to be able to start before the PNF, by calling call rte_eal_init and rte_dev_probe to determine if dpdk has been initialized properly, before calling rte_eal_init in the intended process when it is appropriate to do so
This allows access to the VNF configuration in the various transport mechanisms straight from config, without this, the transport specific thread would cause a segmentation fault when trying to access the pack/unpack function pointers.
Add 2 functions to access the P5 and P7 VNF structures, to avoid having to always cast user_data and p7_vnfs
These libraries depend on the logging module, so add the right
dependency log_headers. Indirectly, this will fulfill the condition of
T. I consider the prior usage of generate_T or {T_LIB} incorrect,
because basically none of these libraries actually, actively use T, but
rather only the logging module, which pulls in T. The dependency of
log_headers will also take care of generating and including T headers,
which is a dependency of the logging module.
For conf2uedata and related, fulfill the dependency
through conf2uedata_lib (on which the rest depends).
Created a function nr_error_ind_cb for the VNF that takes a received ERROR.indication and shows some details regarding the reported error from the PNF, since up until now it was not handled and treated as an unknown message.
Proper error handling procedure not created, only shows that the error occurred.
Remove duplicated functions in fapi_vnf_p7.c, leaving only functions for messages that require usage of the secondaty data_buf for unpacking
Move vnf_info struct declaration to nfapi_vnf.h to be available in fapi_nvIPC.c
Add check to vnf_nr_handle_param_response for when phy_info is not found
The WLS VNF is in charge of Enqueueing the used blocks after usage for transport, this is done by keeping track of all blocks used, and calling WLS_Enqueue for all of them upon receiving a SLOT.indication
The common library exposes functions for the PNF to return the received blocks to the VNF for it to call WLS_Enqueue on them.
This is done in order to ensure the Blocks are returned after processing, also preventing the Dequeueing of blocks that are still being used, i.e. the internal value is not -1
All saved blocks are to be enqueued at the reception of a SLOT.indication by the VNF
Additionally, the definition of NFAPI_MAX_PACKED_MESSAGE_SIZE was moved to nfapi_interface.h and removed from the other headers, this is done to allow to set the maximum message size when using WLS by only changing the value in one place
Fixup fapi_nr_message_header_unpack call in nfapi_hex_parser
Adds 3 new function pointers to the P5 and P7 VNF structures, allowing to configure which function to use to pack/unpack the messages, as well as unpack the message header, being then used seamlessly regardless of using the FAPI or nFAPI functions.
Adds 3 new function pointers to the P5 and P7 PNF structures, allowing to configure which function to use to pack/unpack the messages, as well as unpack the message header, being then used seamlessly regardless of using the FAPI or nFAPI functions.
Changes the header unpack and message unpack functions to return true on success and false on failure, instead of an int
Fix SRS report TLV unpack
Changes the SRS unpacking to not expect padding to be present in the buffer when
working with Aerial, with which the report TLVs are not padded to the nearest
32-bit boundary. This issue was found when using a UE with 1 SRS port, which
causes the TLV to not have a length divisible by 4. Also adds a function to pull
X amount of bytes into a uint32_t, which is used to process the last 4 byte
block of the TLV, only pulling the bytes which are not padding. Completed the
SRS.indication dumping procedure to print out the report TLV. Changed the
SRS.indication unitary test to fill the last 4 byte block of the report TLV
appropriately according to the length ( which ensures the padding bytes are set
to 0 )
Add a function pullx32 to pull x amount of bytes into uint32_t
Change the unpacking to pull only the needed bytes, and skip over the padding, when not Aerial
Change SRS.indication dumping function to also print the report TLV contents
Change SRS.indication unitary test to fill the last 4 byte block of the report TLV according to the length, with padding
Similar to the parent commit, make the numerology in the VNF
configurable. Unlike for the PNF change, the VNF frame/slot info is in a
per-PNF connection structure to which the "oai_integration" code has no
access. So we need to hack the nfapi_vnf_p7_add_pnf() function signature
to take the numerology, to be able to save this on a per-PNF basis.
The fact that we store this on a per-PNF basis is not strictly required,
as the VNF cannot handle multiple numerologies as of now, either.
However, we might want to extend this in the future, so it seems prudent
to store this on a per-PNF basis, so that we could start handling
multiple numerologies at the L2 without the need to change the L1 or
nFAPI code itself.
Also, the numerology is not needed except for some code that deals with
timing over nFAPI. As of now, we don't use this code (nFAPI gets a
trigger every slot, as per the VNF request, see an earlier commit in
this series), but also here, let's not make the future more complicated
by storing the numerology for each PNF now (this could always be reverted).
For 4G, put numerology 0 (15kHZ SCS), which is the SCS that LTE uses.
Fill in the dynamically received numerology, and make the numerology at
the PNF configurable, following the changes in the parent commit.
The change for the reading is somewhat of a hack, because nFAPI, as of
now, does not really foresee to store the numerology, so we fill the
numerology during the start request, when the numerlogy has been
received in the config request, but at that time, the structure for the
time information (frame/slot) does not exist yet.
At both the PNF and the VNF, introduce a separate numerology field, and
pass the numerology when converting time information using macros from
nfapi_interface.h. The actually numerology is still hardcoded to 1 (as it
was before), but the follow-up commits will put a suitable numerology.
In both cases, but the numerology next to the frame/slot information.
Jaroslava Fiedlerova