Before this commit, the following will trigger a complete rebuild:
- create another git name (git checkout -b test)
- run cmake again manually (cmake ..)
- run ninja again
The top-level CMakeLists.txt uses add_definitions() to add git
information to all targets; if some git information changes, this will
mark all command lines as dirty, triggering the build.
There is an easy solution: instead of passing this information on the
command line, pass it in a header. This commit uses configure_file() to
generate a file oai_version.h in the build directory with the same
information. Various sources files, e.g., main executables, use this to
output the same information as before. It is then also not necessary to
use header guards, as cmake takes care to create this file.
If cmake is re-run, it will update the header, and trigger only files
including this header will be rebuilt (which can be shown with the above
stpes). The information passed is the same as before, and updates the
information when the old method would have updated it.
- Introduced command line and configuration options to set up PCI address, CPU cores used by DPDK, and DPDK file prefix for T2 offload.
- Made the dpdk_dev parameter (for setting the PCI address of the T2) mandatory.
- Configure dpdk_dev in the CI test cases.
- Replaced bbdev TEST_ASSERTs with the OAI macro AssertFatal() to harmonize error handling.
- Removed unused functions and macros from nrLDPC_offload.h.
- Reworked nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c to process all segments in a TB with a single call to LDPCdecoder() or LDPCencoder().
- Perform CRC checks on the T2.
- Modified nr_ulsch_decoding (gNB decoder) to:
- Count processed segments.
- Properly perform CRC checks.
- Created a constant NR_LDPC_MAX_NUM_CB to define the maximum number of codeblocks.
- Conditional library loading:
- On gNB: Load ldpc_t2 library if offload is enabled using the --ldpc-offload-enable flag.
- On UE: Load both ldpc_t2 and ldpc libraries since only encoder offload is supported.
- General cleanup of nrLDPC_decoder_offload.c for improved readability and maintainability.
- Modified the structure of LDPC encoder/decoder/offload parameters:
- Introduced a structure for code block (CB) related parameters.
- Removed parameter E from the encoder and offload parameter structures for clarity.
- Replaced E with perCB->E_cb in the UE encoder code.
We access G_N at indexes that are not necessarily 32-byte aligned,
leading to segfaults. Use simde_mm256_loadu_si256() to load from memory
at an unaligned memory address to avoid the segfault.
Discovered using clang; it is unclear why gcc did not encounter the same
segfault.
- Rate matching performed by card
- Due to rate matching on card, small TBs are encoded correctly, so the
limitation of encoding small TBs in CPU can be lifted (all TBs encoded
on T2), see a later commits
to use faster code
- replaced hundreds mallocs by either local arrays or by the OAI multi-dimensionalarray (G_N_tab array)
- made in SIMD a one bit per byte packing function to packed (ordinary) bits in bytes
Laurent THOMAS