E release had the same issue of not using pkgconfig properly as F release.
This issue was fixed in F release when enabling its compatibility with DPDK 21+.
This commit brings this fix to E release.
In order to be usable in parallel of FHI 7.2, BBDEV devices should be included in the EAL initialization that is prformed by xran.
This commit adds a way of adding the BBDEV device from OAI.
Also fixes an issue with pkgconfig in xran.
Get xran stats in the trx_oran_get_stats function
and use trx_oran_get_stats upon stopping and ending RF.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
Look up xran_fh_init/xran_fh_config through driver instead of peaking
into xran internals. Note that xran writes values back into these
structs during initialization, and hence it is important to store them
_after initialization_.
Some remarks regarding less obvious changes:
- slotnum is replaced by slots_in_sf: SLOTNUM_PER_SUBFRAME uses the time
duration of a slot (=interval_us_local) to calculate the numbers of
slots in a subframe, which can be done with a simple shift instead
- The prach duration should be queried from the PRACH configuration
table. The function to query the occasion info is part of the MAC
layer code while this information can be used outside of this layer.
Use header `nr_prach_config.h` to not duplicate functionality.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
The buffers are set up by the OAI xran driver, so instead of peaking
into xran internal data, access the buffers through the driver directly.
The buffers get set up through the following xran calls
In xran_5g_fronthault_config():
- src => sFrontHaulTxBbuIoBufCtrl
- srccp => sFrontHaulTxPrbMapBbuIoBufCtrl
- dst => sFrontHaulRxBbuIoBufCtrl
- dstcp => sFrontHaulRxPrbMapBbuIoBufCtrl
In xran_5g_prach_req()
- prach(dst) => sFHPrachRxBbuIoBufCtrl
- prach(dst)decomp => sFHPrachRxBbuIoBufCtrlDecomp
Note that in all cases:
- the xran buffer array is [XRAN_N_FE_BUF_LEN][XRAN_MAX_SECTOR_NR][XRAN_MAX_ANTENNA_NR]
(of [internal] type BbuIoBufCtrlStruct, but we give an sBufferList)
- the driver buffer array is [XRAN_MAX_ANTENNA_NR][XRAN_N_FE_BUF_LEN]
Hence, we switch the order of indexing, leave out the sector, and omit
the sBufferList member.
xran_get_slot_idx_from_tti() has been introduced to access data
information from xran. However, it makes no sense, as the used macros to
calculate frame, slot, subframe, are already in the public API. Hence,
use these macros directly.
It would be possible to remove xran_get_slot_idx_from_tti(), but doing
so we would need to update the patch ID, causing trouble to users.
1. Closes#884 - increase the XRAN_MAX_FRAGMENT from 4 to 6 (sufficient for MTU 1500 with compression 8b)
2. Add new firmware version that supports jumbo frames
3. Update the config file to align with the new Liteon unit in our lab - center frequency, jumbo frames, compression and RU MAC address,
as well as the max DL MIMO layers.
The fronthaul library ships with BFP compression for AVX512 enabled targets.
This commit adds BFP compression for Arm targets by using the ArmRAL library.
Update the xran E release patch to work for Arm targets in addition to x86 targets.
Co-authored-by: Yi-Hung Chang <Yi-Hung.Chang@eurecom.fr>
Co-authored-by: brobert <brobert@valiha.com>
- if RU(s) are not well configured, disconnect immediately and stop the DU
- if all RUs are well configured, proceed with waiting until ready. The RU is
ready when the carriers are activated. Either the RU already has preconfigured
carriers (previous M-plane client configured), or the DU has to wait until receives
the notifications.
Ideally, we should load the yang models from the RU operational datastore, but the issues are following:
1) the yang models order is not good - dependancy models have to be loaded first
2) earlier O-RAN yang versions (e.g. v4) is not properly defined (i.e. optional parameters should not be included by default)
Added support in both cases, loading from RU with <get-schema> RPC, and loading statically from "radio/fhi_72/mplane/yang/models" folder.
- RU IP address - to connect to RUs via netconf
- DU MAC address - for setting up the CU-planes on RU; not used in xran
- VLAN tag (*) - for setting up the CU-planes on RU; not used in xran
- DU keypair - for authentication when connecting to RU(s)
The parameters that RU-controller shall retreive from RU list of
capabilities:
- MTU
- compression
- RU MAC address
- PRACH offset (**)
(*) VLAN tag is not used in xran but an option is given in fh_config struct.
In my opinion, it is not a very suitable place, as it is needed for VFs.
Therefore, I moved it in the initialization part for M-plane purposes.
(**) PRACH offset shall be >= max(Ntx,Nrx), as per O-RAN CUS specification:
"The O-DU may decide to use same eAxC ID value to address endpoints on different O-RUs,
but eAxC ID values assigned to one O-RU must be unique within the O-RU’s endpoints of same direction."
=> however, LITEON supports flexible assignment of PRACH eAxC IDs, so
we made a workaround in the xran library to support PRACH eAxC IDs same
as PUSCH eAxC IDs.
Change to bool for clarity. The log message would sometimes only show up
at the end, which is misleading; use the logging module, which
harmonizes log statements and should make this appear immediately.
We still do not handle RUs with MTUs of 1500 properly in F release;
therefore, for the close future, we cannot remove support for E release.
Also, it "promises" this for January, which is in the past already.
Update to keep the warning logical.
first_rx_set is polling-specific: it makes the polling loop wait to only
check the frame/slot counter once we set it for the first time. However,
that is equivalent to checking the frame/slot directly, which will also
be 0 in the beginning.
first_read_set seems to have the function of making frame/slot time
advance only if we started to read the samples in
xran_fh_rx_read_slot(). I interpret that as "only advance the time if
the gNB is reading from xran", which does not make sense to me, because
xran advances the time anyway. Also, polling would not notice, and
no-polling would simply warn about double messages. So the outcome is
likely the same, whether first_read_set is set or not.
I checked in multiple CI runs; it happens that first_read_set is always
set already when oai_xran_fh_rx_callback() is called anyway.
xran_fh_rx_read_slot() uses polling (a loop over cnt++) to wait for the
next frame/slot. The reasons I have been told is "it does not work
differently", or "there are real-time problems". None of those seem to
be true; by default disable polling, and use the queue instead.
It is possible to enable polling with the cmake option
OAI_FHI72_USE_POLLING=ON. Documentation has been updated to inform about
this change.
The queue L1_rx_out was in place to keep RX/TX processing relatively
"close" to each other (in terms of time, since in RFsim, they might
advance faster than realtime; see also parent commit). This lead to a
memory leak in radios that do not use ru->feprx (no front-end processing
for RX, e.g., PRACH), as the code to read the L1_rx_out messages was
inside a block of if (ru->feprx). Move it out so that the queue is
always read and messages are freed to eliminate the memory leak, and
remove the workaround for FHI72 to avoid this memory leak.
This also allows to run RFsim when compiling FHI72, which was not
possible before this commit.
Closes: #812
FHI72: fix for a distributed antenna array for xran F release
in the Rx callback I reset the number of section descriptions/number of
fragments to 0, but for each antenna up to max number of antennas per
RU, instead of up to max number of distributed antenna array
- in the Rx callback I reset the number of section descriptions/number of fragments to 0,
but for each antenna up to max number of antennas per RU, instead of up to max number of a distributed antenna array
Romain Beurdouche