Different threads (e.g., RRC, DU tasks) might access the scheduler at
the same time as the thread that drivers the scheduler itself
(ru_thread). To avoid data races, introduce this mutex.
Most functions of the scheduler are only used internally and have been
marked static in the previous commit. The remaining ones, in this
commit, either lock the scheduler mutex sched_lock, or a comment has
been added of the assumption of how such function is to be locked (e.g.,
if it might be called from different places, or if it is called by a
function that already locks the scheduler).
fill_default_secondaryCellGroup() is moved to nr_rrc_config.c.
Furthermore, the signature is changes to return the NR_CellGroupConfig
from the functions, instead of filling a pre-allocated structure (which
is, in all cases, allocated just before calling
fill_default_secondaryCellGroup().
There is a problem with this function: the function also fills the
ServingCellConfig (a parameter to this function). This behavior has not
been changed.
This commit fixes a bug caused by global variables in the gNB_MAC_INST
structure used to transfer MAC scheduler's results to the PHY layer.
When using several threads in the PHY layer, it may happen that the
MAC scheduler is called a second time by the second PHY thread for the
next slot before the content of the global variables in the gNB_MAC_INST
structure used to store the result of the MAC scheduler for the current
slot have been consumed by the first thread, leading to unpredictable
results (all of them certainly wrong).
The solution is to introduce a small memory management module for the
interface between the PHY threads and the MAC scheduler. The MAC
scheduler now fills the data structures passed to it, and not a
global variable anymore. The PHY layer manages the structures and
ensures that no data is overwritten before being fully consumed by
the various threads of the PHY layer.
Some care has to be taken because several PHY threads will access the
same structures at the same time for a given slot (in read mode, so
it's okay). A mechanism of reference counting has thus been introduced.
Only one CC is supported. This restriction should not be too hard
to remove if/when needed. (The code before this commit does not seem
to work for more than one CC anyway.)
DL config as array in MAC
Run RX slot processing in Tpool thread
Fixed race in phy config
Changed mac_IF_mutex
Proc Tx: Lets wait for Proc Rx to get ACK/NACK
-(only on slots that carry ACK/NACK)
Fix problem with rfsim
Separated PDCCH and PDSCH decoding functions. Run PDCCH decoding in main UE_thread.
Fixed race in MAC dci config struct
needed for parallel processing of slots
Moved DLSCH transport block buffer to stack
rx_ind as static allocation
L2sim: Fixed calling of MAC sched in wrong slot
Fix DCI extract bug for RA procedure
This commit includes changes to the function
footprints for vaiours NR UE and gNB functions.
It does not updated the LTE code. For functions
shared by both LTE and 5G, we maintained the original
LTE footprint and argument structure.
Several of the simulators that use these functions
have been updated as well. The specific usage of these
functions which index into the int32_t buffers and
treat the first int16_t and the real and the second
as the complex should be modified in the near future.
Melissa Elkadi