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.
The absslot_tx overflow issue observed during integration testing of AW2S
RU with GPS as the source for the clock synchronization. Causes the gNB
not to start the TX thread and stops the processing.
Add an API to allow out-of-order writes to a radio interface, unlike the
current interface.
this function is called in UE in this commit, even if the tx might
still be in order.
Later, i plan to improve UE pulti-threading, that will lead to out of
order tx. also, the gNB will benefit of this new function to replace
several specific pieces of code that reorder tx with over complex and
slow systems
They use 4G NUMBER_OF_UE_MAX, which is not supposed to be present in 5G.
Further, the mutex and variable are global state; for Paging, we should
use F1.
Doing only 5 LDPC iterations by default leads to a poor reception
performance, and correspondingly many retransmissions. Increase to 8 as
the new default to improve user experience.
- deleted: ../../../executables/rfsim.c
- removed unused command line options to set SINR and SNR
- removed unused functions to get SINR and SNR
- removed unused RFSIM struct members
Robert Schmidt