Improvements for LDPC encoding
AVX512 modifications for LDPC encoding: interleaving, ZC384 BG1, output
formatting for encoder, segmentation (memcpy instead of loop). some
improvement in TX for aarch64 in same places where AVX512 support was
added. Also, rate matching and interleaving are done on bytes containing
8 segments and reformatting of the output is done at the end of segment
processing instead of after ldpc encoding.
This improves the overall performance of the NR DL transmitter in gNB
See the merge request description for numbers.
Update CN5G images tags to the latest release in all CI pipelines
This MR is updating the tags of the CN5G docker images to the latest
release v2.1.9, for all CI pipelines.
Improve radio for Metanoia RU (and likely others)
We introduced a regression that lowered the achievable DL throughput
with at least the Metanoia RU (i.e., in the configuration and the UE
that we use). git bisect showed up one commit, which does not seem
necessary. We just revert this commit, as it improves the throughput and
does not seem to have a negative impact on performance.
Further, increase RLC buffers a bit. Limit 7.2 pipeline number of layers
to 2.
With PMI reporting working (see HEAD^^), it seems that four layers put
two much processing strain on the machine (cacofonix), which asserts
immediately. In tests, it was found that the same test throughput
(600Mbps) can be achieved with two layers, while not crashing the
machine.
CI: Replacing Devkit server with a Grace Hopper in Aerial pipeline
Switch servers on the Aerial pipeline from Gigabyte (AMD) to Grace
Hopper (ARM), and make the necessary changes:
- Update XML, YAML, and gnb.conf
- Change the argument passed to the L1 in aerial_l1_entrypoint.sh to be
compatible with the GH
- Update the Aerial setup in TESTBench.md and Aerial_FAPI_Split_Tutorial.md docs
- Decrease the tested throughput due to an issue with the RU. Will open
another MR to increase it once the problem is fixed.
NR UE: add support for continuous frequency offset compensation (in particular NTN LEO Doppler)
- move function add_noise() to file
openair1/SIMULATION/TOOLS/phase_noise.c
- refactor (co)sinus calculation out of phase_noise() into get_sin_cos()
in nr_common.c
- NR UE: continuously estimate the frequency offset using PBCH DMRS
- NR UE: add command line parameter --initial-fo to specify known
initial frequency offset
- NR UE: add support for continuous DL frequency offset compensation
--cont-fo-comp
- NR UE: add support for continuous UL frequency offset
pre-compensation. Depending on the main source of frequency offset,
pre-compensate the UL frequency offset (FO) accordingly. Therefore
modify the flag --cont-fo-comp to accept an integer value, where
* 1 specifies, that the main FO contribution comes from the accuracy of the local oscillator (LO)
* 2 specifies, that the main FO contribution comes from Doppler shift
- NR UE: add PI controller to continuous frequency offset compensation
- rfsimulator: enable and correct NTN LEO doppler simulation
- use SIMD to speed up nr_fo_compensation()
- Extend NTN LEO example in RUNMODEM.md to include continuous Doppler
compensation
- NR UE: in nr_adjust_synch_ue() extend the peak search to +/- cyclic
prefix size, esp. for LEO NTN scenarios the timing drifts during
initial sync, which is mostly compensated with
--ntn-initial-time-drift. But there might be a residual time offset,
and by extending the peak search window we make this more tolerant.
- NR UE: remove unused nr_slot_tx_offset, it is unused since commit
f3e60a14
- NR UE: remove now unnecessary local variable
update_ntn_system_information, directly use
UE->ntn_config_message->update instead
In various places, e.g., during initialization (before deployment), we
use the name of the CN object, previously including the IP address.
However, the IP might not be available (because the CN is not deployed),
so we would get warnings at this stage. Avoid this by not looking up the
IP.
There is now one place where we have to look up the IP address
separately.
Also, the exception in initialization might be misleading if we used
{self}, because we complain about no node being present, but the {self}
would include a non-existing node name => do not use it.
- Update the L1 (cuBB) version in the docker-compose.yaml
- Change the argument for the L1 config file (cuphycontroller.yaml) in the aerial_l1_entrypoint.sh
- Update the N2 and N3 IP addresses to match the Grace Hopper's in the gnb.conf.
- Remove the test XML file for pulling images in the ARM image builder.
- Update the Aerial XML file to pull ARM images.
- Decrease tested throughput (temporarily) due to problems with Foxconn RU
Extend F1 Handover test
do 1 more handover in the same test to verify robustness
- This MR keeps a simple ping after the second handover since there are
still issues due to scheduling starting too early, that is as soon as
the UE context is added. This leads to retransmissions that could
eventually lead to a test failure. The issue will be fixed in a future
MR.
add check on connected DU to verify successful handover
- a new telnet function gets in input the UE ID and returns the ID of
the connected DU
wait some time after deploying DU to mimic time for measurements
feat(oran_fhlib_5g): O-RAN 7.2 FrontHaul Interface on Arm
This MR is enabling the 7.2 FHI on Arm systems.
Even though the performance are yet very bad (UE connection is very
difficult, 100Mbps DL, almost no UL), still I would like to merge this
now since the matter of making the FHI work is rather orthogonal to the
performance issues.
So merging this feature would provide a reliable settlement on top of
which we could then progressively enhance the porting of OAI to Arm.
Especially that would make our work easier by having less features to
rebase regularly on develop.
The main features this MR is made of are:
1. Make the xran patches dual
We provide patches for both E and F releases of xran that handles x86
targets as well as Arm targets. Both patches have been tested on both
types of machines (armix, broadbill). Thanks to @brobert and @changy
for their work on xran.
2. Perform 9-bits BFP compression with ArmRAL
Since the BFP compression implementation provided with xran does rely
heavily on AVX512, we provide an alternative implementation that is
relying on Arm's RAN Acceleration Library (ArmRAL).
As of writing this commit description, only 9-bits compression is
supported. Other IQ width will be added.
This upcoming change does not prevent review to be performed since the
BFP compression functions of ArmRAL are identical except for the IQ
width. Adding further IQ width is therefore very straightforward.
3. Fixes in oran_fhlib_5g to support Arm
The library oran_fhlib_5g needed few changes to successfully compile and
run on Arm systems. Thanks to @brobert for his work on oran_fhlib_5g.
Wait before triggering a handover. First, we send it very quickly after
deployment, which can make the DU crash (should be fixed in !3332). Second, a
UE would typically first measure neighbors. While we don't do this with OAI UE,
mimic this somewhat by giving more time.
See also !3332.
* the handover is followed by a sleep and an ping test
This MR keeps a simple ping after the second handover since there are still issues due to scheduling starting too early,
that is as soon as the UE context is added. This leads to retransmissions that could eventually lead to a test failure.
The issue will be fixed in a future MR.
Temporarily deactivate DRB integrity protection in SABOX-B200 E1 testcase
to avoid CI failure due to low measured throughput. Our investigation
suggests that the low throughput is likely due to limitation of the UE
(Quectel RM500Q), which appears to restrict the maximum data rate when
integrity protection is enabled. This limitation is not observed with
Quectel RM520N.
The healthcheck interval sets when the first health check occurs after the
container starts. Increasing the healthcheck interval helps avoid marking
the container as "healthy" during the initialization phase of PNF. In
particular, USRP initialization of PNF service may take longer, and deployment
failures can occur even after the 10 seconds interval. Extending the healtcheck
interval provides more time for the service before assessing container health.
- use Ubuntu image, instead of RHEL image - gNB fails with "Illegal
instruction" during RA, when running with RHEL image
- init DPDK in VA mode
- increase number of cores Tpool
Refactor core network handling in CI, harmonize code
Prior to change set, there is a highly heterogeneous situation for core
network management in CI code: some log collection is done from groovy
files (when it could be done in python, which is easier for local
development), there are multiple commands to start a CN from XML files,
the code for starting a CN is always different (no one unified way to
start "any" CN), Ping/Iperf require some support in ci_infra.yaml, ...
To help with the above, refactor the handling of core networks in the CI
code as follows:
- define all CNs in ci_infra.yaml (basically how to deploy, undeploy,
collect logs, and on which node)
- make one Python class that reads from ci_infra.yaml and that allows to
start/stop previously defined CNs (and add unit tests...)
- make one XML command for start/stop of CNs, leveraging above class
- leverage the CNs defined in ci_infra.yaml consistently in
Ping()/Iperf()
- delete old code
Furthermore, the following supporting changes/bugfixes are done:
- repair Iperf2_Unidir() and add unit test
- fix a number of invalid escape sequence errors (there are some
remaining, which I will do soon)
- various bug fixes
- remove unused XML steps
The following cases are covered
- we have a regex whose escape sequences are not to be evaluated in the
string, but given verbatim to the regex engine. Hence, mark them as
raw strings.
- some are parameters for the cmd.run() call, but the parameters are
wrong, so remove that
- there is a `\|` that is also to be passed verbatim
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:97: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\-'
if re.search('buildconfig.build.openshift.io/[a-zA-Z\-0-9]+ created', ret.stdout) is not None:
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:167: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\-'
result = re.search(f'pod/(?P<pod>[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+) created', ret.stdout)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:325: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\$'
self.cmd.run(f'oc get pods.metrics.k8s.io &>> cmake_targets/log/build-metrics.log', '\$', 10)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:385: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\$'
self.cmd.run(f'oc get pods.metrics.k8s.io &>> cmake_targets/log/build-metrics.log', '\$', 10)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:398: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\$'
self.cmd.run(f'oc get pods.metrics.k8s.io &>> cmake_targets/log/build-metrics.log', '\$', 10)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:413: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\$'
self.cmd.run(f'oc get pods.metrics.k8s.io &>> cmake_targets/log/build-metrics.log', '\$', 10)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:429: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\|'
grep_exp = "\|".join(attemptedImages)
/home/richie/w/ci-refactor-core-handling/ci-scripts/cls_cluster.py:431: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\$'
self.cmd.run(f'for pod in $(oc get pods | tail -n +2 | awk \'{{print $1}}\'); do oc get pod $pod -o json &>> cmake_targets/log/build_pod_summary.log; done', '\$', 60)
Robert Schmidt