Integration `2025.w42`
* !3623 Optimization of PDSCH precoding operation
* !3691 \[CI\] Ensure multi-arch DockerHub Push after successful image build
* !3696 asn1c doesn't follow c99 variables alias rules, it needs to be compiled this...
* !3685 Assign antenna ports correctly for 1 and 2 layers for aerial.
* !3495 Type0 PDSCH frequency allocation at L1 UE
* !3686 Remove NR L2 simulator code from UE
* !3693 Remove B200-specific clock-rate setting
* !3701 OAI UE: add shared RSRP Table 10.1.6.1-1 mapping function to helpers and adopt it RRC UE
* !3662 RRC UE file cleanup
* update doc/README.md
* !3608 use common scale channel functions for DLSCH and ULSCH
* !3694 fix non initialized DMRS port value in case of DCI00 at UE
* !3702 Extend F1 rfsim CI test
* !3704 remove unused global queues, dead code
* !3673 CI: Aerial: Add an UL-heavy pipeline test
* !3651 CI: Upgrade HO setup to use an attenuator
* !3695 CI: Upgrade Aerial setup to 25-2.1
Closes#940
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3700
CI: Upgrade Aerial setup to 25-2.1
The purpose of this MR is to upgrade the cuBB image in the Aerial setup to
release 25-2.1 and update the doc/Aerial_FAPI_Split_Tutorial.md accordingly.
CI: Upgrade HO setup to use an attenuator
The goal of this MR is to upgrade HO CI setup to include a digital attenuator
that will allow us to trigger handover by attenuating the signals on the DUs.
OAI UE: add shared RSRP Table 10.1.6.1-1 mapping function to helpers and adopt
it RRC UE
- Add to common/utils/nr/nr_common remove from NR_MAC_UE/nr_ue_procedures.c
- Adopt in asn1_msg.c for MeasurementReport: this solves the following possible
assert:
Assertion (enc_rval.encoded > 0) failed!
In do_nrMeasurementReport_SA() /oai-ran/openair2/RRC/NR/MESSAGES/asn1_msg.c:898
ASN1 message encoding failed (MeasResultServMOList, 18446744073709551615)!
Motivation: unify RSRP-to-index mapping across layers and fix NR RRC
MeasurementReport encoding failures due to out-of-range values by reusing the
validated mapping.
Note: NR_RSRP-Range.c constraint: /* (0..127) */
Also refactored MeasurementReport to improve the code.
Remove B200-specific clock-rate setting
Avoid this clock-rate setting, as we already do it around usrp_lib.cpp:1121, so
it is superfluous. For instance, we also do not set a master clock rate for N3xx
either. This also enables us to synchronize B200 for handover settings,
e.g., for !3651.
See the commit message for more information about synchronization.
Remove NR L2 simulator code from UE
This MR removes NR (SA and NSA) L2 simulator from the codebase. The code, at
least at the UE side, was done at a time where there was no clear L2/L1 split
leading to a complex implementation that never worked as expected. The L2
simulator has been broken and removed from testing for long time and, once it
needs to be revived, it would require a complete new implementation.
Assign antenna ports correctly for 1 and 2 layers for aerial.
With this change aerial successfully decodes PUSCH with 2 UL layers.
The code should use sched_pusch->dmrs.num_dmrs_cdm_grps_no_data == 1 rather
than NFAPI_MODE != NFAPI_MODE_AERIAL, but that will make the changes a bit
more extensive.
Prior to this change, sending antenna_ports.val = 2 with rank 2 would tell
the UE to transmit on DMRS ports 2,3 rather than 0,1 causing it to not decode.
[CI] Ensure multi-arch DockerHub Push after successful image build
This merge request improves the CI script to ensure that the DockerHub-Push
stage executes whenever:
- All Image Build stages succeed &
- doBuild is true &
- The event is a PUSH
This behavior ensures that Docker images are published whenever the image build
stages succeed, regardless of any failures in the Image Test stages.
Jetson ARM64/V8 and AMD64 images will now be published on DockerHub under the
same tag (develop or WEEK_TAG) to provide multi-architecture images.
Optimization of PDSCH precoding operation
x86/aarch64 optimizations for precoding, more complete timing reporting in
nr_dlsim. Timing report in nr_dlsim now shows the total PDSCH generation time
and is broken down into Layer mapping, resource mapping and precoding.
The optimizations for x86 are basically reorganizing loops (for AVX512,AVX2,
NEON but not SSE2) to minimize repetitive instructions when formatting of the
precoder weights, and creation of inline functions for complex multiply-add.
AVX512 optimization was added. requiring AVX512BW. Detection of up to 4 PRBs
with common PMI for efficiency with AVX512 (was 2 in develop for AVX2).
For aarch64, native coding of the precoder to avoid inefficient SIMDe
translations for this operation.
nr_dlsim now uses default precoding indices depending on the scenario instead
of 0 which doesn't do precoding at all.
See merge request description for nr_dlsim test results.
Replace the previous add_timed_physim_test() macro with add_physim_test()
to use a single, unified function for defining physim tests. This simplifies
the test configuration and removes redundant macro definitions while keeping
all existing functionality.
This change follows up on the earlier addition of support for including
custom timing threshold files (PHYSIM_CHECK_FILES).
Update existing tests accordingly.
Add missing timinig analysis scripts to RHEL9 physim docker image. These files
are now copied from the build stage to /oai-ran/openair1/SIMULATION/tests/,
where they are expected by ctest.
Resolves following issue when running ctest in docker container:
CMake Error: Error processing file: /oai-ran/openair1/SIMULATION/tests/RunTimedTest.cmake
Fixes to prevent assertion due to 0 PRB allocation
Assertion (NPRB>0 && (NPRB + RBstart <= BWPsize)) failed!
In PRBalloc_to_locationandbandwidth0() /home/user/openairinterface5g/common/utils/nr/nr_common.c:506
Illegal NPRB/RBstart Configuration (0,51) for BWPsize 51
Probably caused by missing safeguards to prevent computing TBS with 0 PRB
as input.
Fix OAI UE memory leaks
Fix 1: Replaced asn1cFreeStruc with ASN_STRUCT_FREE in MAC layer to properly
free nested ASN.1 structures in cell group configuration.
Fix 2: Removed premature nullification of dedicatedNAS_Message->buf in
dlInformationTransfer processing to allow proper ASN.1 cleanup.
Fix 3: Fixed memory ownership in nr_rrc_process_dedicatedNAS_MessageList by
copying OCTET_STRING data instead of transferring ownership, preventing
ASN.1 cleanup from losing track of allocated memory
Closes#828
fix RSRP computation at UE
Conflicts between !3595 (merged) and !3596 (merged) leading to double conversion
of RSRP into index in L1 and L2. With this fix it is only converted in L2.
Replace int16 min when obvious
INT16_MIN doesn't have a opposite value on 16 bits, so SIMD abs (absolute()), or
simple C operations doesn't make the expected result.
example:
(gdb) p (short)-(short)-32768
$4 = -32768
(gdb)
This MR replaces constants INT16_MIN by -INT16_MAX (so -32767) in places where
it used for mathematical operations. This is not perfect, nevertheless reduces
overflow probability.
We saw in some places a dirty case: code do first calls to _mm_adds_epi16
(or subs), so because of the saturated operations, the probability to reach
32767 and -32768 is higher than the other numbers but, _mm_abs_epi16(), or
negate operations (conjugate) can follow, that is making strong error as
abs(-32768)=-32768
Also, don't use "set -x" debugging for oc login command:
ci-scripts/cls_cmd.py:242 sets BASH_XTRACEFD=1, which makes that all
"set -x" output is in stdout, leading to a redirect to the file into
which we redirect. This would lead to the following error with
unsuccessfull oc login:
error: You are not a member of project "****-core-for-ci-ran".
Error from server (Forbidden): imagestreams.image.openshift.io "oai-physim"
is forbidden: User "system:anonymous" cannot get resource "imagestreams" in
API group "image.openshift.io" in the namespace "****-ran"
Integration: `2025.w40`
* !3672 \[ci\] Fix MissingPropertyException - COTS-UE by binding OAI_Registry globally
* !3609 BWP with no PRACH occasions
* !3657 do not assert for mismatched TBS in phy-test mode
* !3667 CI: Updates for HO and AW2S pipeline
* !3674 NR UE: remove function get_nr_RSRP() and get_nr_rx_total_gain_dB() for cleanup
* !3478 NR UE: add UCI (HARQ-ACK/NACK) on PUSCH support at PHY
* !3664 modulation LUTs size was wrong, and remove inconsistent test of SSE2 enable
* !3665 Make all targets compile
* !3554 Handle failures in RRCReconfiguration encoding gracefully
* !3655 Improvements to N2 handover
* !3678 Add OAIUE longrun pipeline
* !3628 Update documentation
Closes#979, #726, #959, #967, and #930
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3676
Make all targets compile
This MR enables us to compile all targets, and does that in one CI test. This
closes#726. Now, this should work:
cd ~/openairinterface5g
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -GNinja && ninja
To achieve this, I did the following:
- some targets have been fixed (warnings, errors)
- some targets have been removed when they did not seem to serve a good purpose
(e.g., an almost empty test)
- some targets have been commented (e.g., LTE simulators, some unitary tests)
which we maybe want to revive in the future
- some targets built when just building with ninja, but not all. For instance,
telnetsrv_enb would typically build, but it was missing a dependency. Doing
cmake .. -GNinja && ninja telnetsrv_enb would show this (in develop)
To help with the last bullet point, there is a script compile_targets.sh that
can compile targets independently (and in parallel, to not wait for ages) to
show that targets compile properly compile-targets.patch.
In almost all cases, the problem is that a specific module uses the logging
module, which depends on T, which needs to dynamically create headers. The way
to do this is to have a dependency, and many targets use generate_T or {T_LIB}
({} intentional: T might be absent, so then it evaluates to nothing). However,
not all do this, and those that depend on T actually don't depend on T, but on
the logging module, which in turn depends on T. So in many places, a simple
dependency onto log_headers fixes this problem, and generate_T or {T_LIB}
simplifies the dependency (but not always). The commits should have more info.
Note that at least the targets in FlexRIC do not all compile, at least in the
configuration that we use in docker/Dockerfile.build.ubuntu. So for the latter,
we cannot build with a simple ninja, but FlexRIC seems to be the only one that
does not compile. Since FlexRIC is a separate repository, that needs to be
addressed in the corresponding repository.
Previously, the script attempted to directly merge ${merge}, which could f
ail if the branch was not already available locally. This update explicitly
fetches the branch from origin and then merges FETCH_HEAD with --ff, ensuring
the merge works even when the branch is missing locally.
NR UE: add UCI (HARQ-ACK/NACK) on PUSCH support at PHY
Add UCI (HARQ-ACK/NACK) on PUSCH support at nrUE PHY, the multiplexing procedure
can be found in TS 38.212 section 6.2.7.
Verified with 3rd-pary gNB for cases when HARQ payload bits length is 1, 2 or 3.
Closes#959 and #967 .
NR UE: remove function get_nr_RSRP() and get_nr_rx_total_gain_dB() for cleanup
The function get_nr_RSRP() and get_nr_rx_total_gain_dB() are not used anywhere
in the code, removing for cleanup.
CI: Updates for HO and AW2S pipeline
This MR introduces several CI updates:
- Change center frequency from 3439 MHz (n78) to 4185 MHz (n77) in HO setup to
prevent interference with other lab setups.
- Enable attaching multiple AmariUEs simultaneously in the AW2S pipeline - save
~25s.
- Update RX gain configuration on AmariUE - improve DL throughput.
BWP with no PRACH occasions
This MR includes fixes at gNB and UE in case the current BWP has no PRACH
occasions, i.e. we need to switch to initial BWP.
Lower the RX gain used by the Amarisoft UE in CI tests to prevent DL signal
saturation. This resolves an issue with low DL throughput observed in CI.
RX/TX signal levels on the Amarisoft UE can be checked with "t spl" command
in lteue; MAX values should not approach 0.
Integration `2025.w39`
* !3582 replace bad DCI by specific message for each case and add checks for bad...
* !3595 Implementing the option to have more than 1 RSRP in CSI report
* !3640 Code cleanup (SRS, config files and more)
* !3654 Extend t300 in multi_ue rfsim testcase
* !3650 NR UE improvements for scheduling ACK/NACK for MSG4
* !3652 In ReconfigurationWithSync, make sure epochTime_r17 present if there is a ntn_Config_r17
* !3653 NR UE: in nr_ue_scheduler.c set LCID_buffer_remain to 0 if RLC indicates not more bytes in buffer
* !3549 Switch to new (internal) registry
* !3513 Improvements to RRC PDU session and DRB handling logic
Closes#995 and #997
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3658
Improvements to RRC PDU session and DRB handling logic
This merge request introduces a major simplification and cleanup of the gNB RRC
PDU Sessions and DRBs handling logic. The core goals of this work are to:
- Replace fixed-size PDU Session, DRBs and QoS arrays with dynamic containers
- Simplify and modularize helper functions for session/DRB management
- Prepare for further refactoring of the PDU Session state machine
- Improve code safety and maintainability through better bounds checking
NR UE: in nr_ue_scheduler.c set LCID_buffer_remain to 0 if RLC indicates not
more bytes in buffer
If the RLC indicates that there is no more data in the buffer, also the
scheduler's LCID_buffer_remain should be set to 0. Else the UE sends BSR
indicating it has data to be transmitted. The gNB would then unnecessarily
schedule UL for this UE, which would not be used, as there is no actual data
to be transmitted.
Extend t300 in multi_ue rfsim testcase
Extend t300 to 1000 to increase the time the gNB has to handle MSG3. Hopefully
this prevents the UEs from timing out after MSG3. Add UE id to timer timeout
LOGs so the UE behavior can be traced through the stack.
Code cleanup (SRS, config files and more)
- Remove deprecated elements from some configuration files (also closes#997)
- Improve SRS code with a better separation between common code and gNB/UE code
- Other minor compilation improvements
Implementing the option to have more than 1 RSRP in CSI report
In collaboration with NI/Emerson.
The standard allows up to 4 RSRP measurements in CSI report (1 full and the other
differential). In current OAI, we just configure 1 RSRP report for the strongest
SSB. This MR allows to configure at gNB more than 1 RSRP report (depending on
config file, number of SSBs and UE capabilities) and makes changes at the UE to
send this report.
replace bad DCI by specific message for each case and add checks for bad...
Replace bad DCI by specific message for each case and add checks for bad
pointers, or sanitize detected warnings. Then fix several issues in DCI
decoding. With this MR, LTE UE has less bad DCI, and each bad DCI has a
reason better diagnosis.
Add nr-cuup to run_locally.sh
E1 deploy wasn't enable in the run_locally.sh script to run the CI on a local
machine. This MR is adding it. It was validated locally.
Fix UE DCI monitoring after RRC setup
After the UE is configured with pdcch-Config, it continues to monitor
fallback search spaces in pdcch-ConfigCommon for DCI with C-RNTI.
The rational is that after sending RRC Setup the network won't know if
the UE has received and successfully applied it. Hence the network would
still continue to use the fallback DCI till it receives RRC setup
complete.
Closes#954
Fix memory allocation issue in KPM RAN function sd parameter handling
This fixes a segmentation fault in the gNB when a KPM xApp sends the sd
parameter in the subscription message.
The segmentation fault seems to occur because *sd is uninitialized when
malloc(**sd) is called. This causes a double dereference of an uninitialized
pointer - **sd reads a random memory value which becomes the size parameter
for malloc(), leading to unpredictable memory allocation and segfaults.
This fix allocates the size using malloc(sizeof(uint32_t)) instead of
dereferencing the uninitialized pointer.
Integration: `2025.w36`
* !3613 Speedup complex rotate for aarch64
* !3614 Ldpc encoder zc384 optimization
* !3625 gNB scheduler small fixes
* !3629 Fix for gNB max feedback time parameter
* !3619 Fix RA 2-Step MgsB Ack at UE
* !3626 Upgrade CI to Aerial 25-2
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3627
Fix for gNB max feedback time parameter
This bug is causing assertions like the following
Assertion (curr_pucch->active == 0) failed!
In nr_csi_meas_reporting() /oai-ran/openair2/LAYER2/NR_MAC_gNB/gNB_scheduler_uci.c:282
CSI structure is scheduled in advance. It should be free!
because the PUCCH structure would be smaller than it should be causing
overlapping.
gNB scheduler small fixes
A couple of fixes in gNB scheduling function. Removing a superfluous input from
CCE function and adding a missing call to reset beam allocation.
Ldpc encoder zc384 optimization
This is a modification for the ldpc encoder which improves performance for
high-throughput cases. It contains a newly-generated file 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. 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.
See the merge request description for numbers.
Speedup complex rotate for aarch64
This is a simple optimization for aarch64 for the "rotate_cpx_vector" used for
the phase_rotation in 5G NR. It provides a speedup of around 1.5 on high-end
aarch64 targets compared to the SIMDe translated version. It is implemented with
native NEON intrinsics and was largely inspired by suggestions from ChatGPT 5 :-)
Integration: `2025.w32`
* !3548 NR UE: fix reliable SIB19 reception when ntn-UlSyncValidityDuration-r17 expires
* !3559 numelt in place of config_isparamset
* !3487 T hacks: add new tracer ant0 and a tool to plot ofdm data from usrp or rfsim (output or input)
* !3541 simplify and make more local variables in nr_rx_pdcch() and fix small bugs
* !3547 Add a CU-UP load tester and improve GTP performance
* !3552 CI: refactor iperf3 UDP analysis function
* !3557 Fix PDSCH rate-matching for periodic CSI in UE
* !3571 fix time manager tests in the CI
* !3344 LDPC BBDEV/AAL rework
* !3560 CI: Refactor log collection, collect also (COTS) UE logs
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3565
CI: Refactor log collection, collect also (COTS) UE logs
Refactor log handling in CI: collect according to currently used XML files. This
makes it homogeneous in the pipelines, and avoids accidental overwriting (as
happens in phytest-timing), as well as harmonizing the log placement
(e.g., no YAML lookup in Ping/Iperf).
Allow to trace and archive UE logs (e.g., Quectel via QLog, Amarisoft UE logs).
By default, no logs will be collected as of this MR, as many files are big.
Various cleanup in Jenkinsfiles, some bugfixes, add unit tests.
LDPC BBDEV/AAL rework
This branch aims to generalize the existing LDPC T2 implementation to support
other DPDK BBDEV accelerators, e.g., Intel ACC100/200.
Differences from the current T2 implementation include:
1. relax CMakeLists.txt checking for custom dpdk-t2 implementation,
technically, any DPDK BBDEV should work
2. BBDEV capability checks during init
3. llr_scaling to scale the input llr accordingly for better decoding
performance on the Intel ACC100/200
4. self-managed harq buffers for the ACC200, as internal harq memory is not
available
Tested BBDEV devices:
1. Intel ACC100
2. Intel ACC200/VRB1
Fix PDSCH rate-matching for periodic CSI in UE
Changed the search structure to have periodic resoruce id in the outer
loop and configured resource set as inner loop to prevent configuring
resource that is not needed.
Use const for input pointers.
CI: refactor iperf3 UDP analysis function
- add helper function to covert reported bitrate values to Mbps for calculations
- clean up the UDP analysis function, improve test report formatting
- fix an issue where Gbps values were incorrectly reported
(example: https://jenkins-oai.eurecom.fr/job/RAN-SA-AERIAL-CN5G/4802/)
- update CI unit test report checks to match the new formatting
Add a CU-UP load tester and improve GTP performance
This adds a simple tester program for the CU-UP. It sets up a number of
UEs/bearers in the CU-UP via the E1 interface, then streams data in
downlink/uplink (as seen by the CU-UP). More information is available in
tests/nr-cuup/README.md.
Includes some fixes to properly verify that SCTP is installed, and use
"the right cmake way" to use it in cmake code (see commit for details).
simplify and make more local variables in nr_rx_pdcch() and fix small bugs...
simplify and make more local variables in nr_rx_pdcch() and fix small bugs
(size 9 RE instaed of 12 RE)
T hacks: add new tracer ant0 and a tool to plot ofdm data from usrp or rfsim
(output or input)
The tool ant0 dumps IQ data to a file (or stdout) as float complex or short.
It is needed for a student's project. (Well, we could use record/extract, but
it's simpler.) The tool ofdm-plot is used to plot output or input signal from
gnb in the frequency domain. May be useful to debug, why not.
numelt in place of config_isparamset
config_isparamset doesn't seem to work for array types, a temporary solution is
using numelt to verify if the parameter is set in config file
NR UE: fix reliable SIB19 reception when ntn-UlSyncValidityDuration-r17 expires
Fixes:
- gNB: fix scheduling of Rel-17 SIBs
- gNB: fix case in update_SIB1_NR_SI() when multiple Rel-17 SIBs would be defined
- NR UE: fix calculation of SI window expiry
Updating LEO scenario to test this
- set ntn-UlSyncValidityDuration-r17 to 5 seconds for LEO scenario
- NTN config: setting sib1_tda is not required anymore
- Add helper function to normalize bitrate values to Mbps for calculations.
- Add helper function to extract data from iperf test report.
- Clean up the UDP analysis function, improve test report formatting.
- Fix an issue where Gbps values were incorrectly reported due to inconsistent
unit parsing.
- Update CI unit test report checks to match the new formatting.
Following frequency change in the pipeline, we observed degraded UL channel
conditions resulting in low UL throughput. Increasing attenuation on the gNB
side was found to mitigate this issue by improving UL channel quality
and reducing UL noise power.
Increase tested UL and DL bitrates in OAIUE pipeline.
Integration: `2025.w30`
* !3529 Add CI RFsim5G test for second PDU session
* !3532 Count bits in variable with mask
* !3533 CI: test T2 with DPDK 22.11
* !3535 RAN-Container-Parent: Auto-generate artifact in failure case
* !3542 bugfix: avoid segmentation fault when Redcap tries to connect to gNB
* !3543 rfsimulator: fix model name for channel
* !3540 CI: migrate RFSim4G to acamas machine
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3539
bugfix: avoid segmentation fault when Redcap tries to connect to gNB
bugfix: avoid segmentation fault when Redcap tries to connect to gNB
as NR_ServingCellConfig_t scd is NULL when Redcap does RA
RAN-Container-Parent: Auto-generate artifact in failure case
RAN-Container-Parent uses Jenkinsfile-GitLab-Container, which only
triggers sub pipelines, then collects their results. However, if a sub
pipeline did not generate an artifact, the result was skipped. It would
also not show it in the automatically generated result page, when it
should.
Remedy this by automatically generating a file with a link to the
pipeline if the artifact could not be retrieved, which
1. Will give a link, which is easier for developers to follow to the
pipeline than manually clicking through Jenkins,
2. Makes the failed pipeline appear in the list of failed pipelines.
CI: test T2 with DPDK 22.11
Following the upgrade of T2 to the latest firmware, DPDK 22.11 is now required.
This MR updates the testing pipeline to ensure compatibility and deployment of
T2 physims with DPDK 22.11.
bridge->nb_cnx++ is done before calling snprintf(modelname,... in the function,
so we take the model name of the next channel. This commit corrects the issue by
using bridge->nb_cnx - 1, ensuring that the model name corresponds to the currently
connected client.
This bug was introduced by MR !3455.
Co-authored-by: Bartosz Podrygajlo <bartosz.podrygajlo@openairinterface.org>
Co-authored-by: Laurent THOMAS <laurent.thomas@open-cells.com>
Build and run OAI physims with DPDK version 22.11 for testing with the latest
T2 firmware release. Environment variables PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
are set to point to the custom installation path of DPDK v22.11.
This commit reduces the UL throughput target in the 2x2 test to align
with the host’s performance capabilities. The adjustment ensures more
reliable and consistent CI results.
Based on observations from testing on acamas, the interval between DL
disruption and the UE synch check needs to be increased - the UE takes
longer to go out of sync . A sleep of 15 seconds has proven to be a
reliable value to ensure constant results.
Add SYS_NICE capability to enable setting thread priority and affinity
in rfsim5g tests. This improves execution speed in test cases with
heavier processing workloads.
