Deadlock avoidance in rfsimulator
This change introduces a countermeasure for deadlock in rfsimulator. The
deadlock happens when all entities are waiting for new data to come in,
and happens with 2+ clients, when a new client connects. I think this
issue is due to ordering of fullwrite calls, resulting in out-of-order
delivery of packets and eventually trashing the packets on the receiving
side. The out-of-order delivery warnings are printed just before the
system deadlocks but I have not found a better solution so far. The
workaround makes the server never lock up permanently by ignoring the
client failure to write on time after 10 tries.
This was tested locally for both UE as server and gNB as server and
works correctly, causing the deadlock to clear and the added log to be
printed several times when the deadlock is detected, after which the
system goes back to normal.
I have some gdb output of the executables during deadlock:
UE:
$7 = {conn_sock = 98, lastReceivedTS = 3226163740, headerMode = true, trashingPacket = false, th = {size = 13184, nbAnt = 1, timestamp = 3226150556, option_value = 0, option_flag = 0}, transferPtr = 0x7f6a500018a8 "\200\063", remainToTransfer = 24,
circularBufEnd = 0x7f6a503b3ac0 "", circularBuf = 0x7f6a501f1ac0, channel_model = 0x0}
(gdb) p t->buf[5]
$8 = {conn_sock = 97, lastReceivedTS = 0, headerMode = true, trashingPacket = false, th = {size = 0, nbAnt = 0, timestamp = 0, option_value = 0, option_flag = 0}, transferPtr = 0x7f6a50001900 "", remainToTransfer = 24, circularBufEnd = 0x7f6a50575ad0 "",
circularBuf = 0x7f6a503b3ad0, channel_model = 0x0}
nextRxTimestamp 3225937740
nsamps = 30720
gNB 1:
(gdb) p t->buf[0]
$4 = {conn_sock = 95, lastReceivedTS = 3226026876, headerMode = true, trashingPacket = false, th = {size = 1, nbAnt = 1, timestamp = 3226026875, option_value = 0, option_flag = 0},
transferPtr = 0x7f8dfc003ab8 "\001", remainToTransfer = 24, circularBufEnd = 0x7f8e1c3ff010 "", circularBuf = 0x7f8e1c23d010, channel_model = 0x0}
nextRxTimestamp 3225996956
gNB 2:
lastReceivedTS = 3226026875
$2 = {conn_sock = 95, lastReceivedTS = 3226026875, headerMode = true, trashingPacket = false, th = {size = 1, nbAnt = 1, timestamp = 3226026875, option_value = 0, option_flag = 0},
transferPtr = 0x744898003ab8 "\001", remainToTransfer = 24, circularBufEnd = 0x7448bc2e7010 "", circularBuf = 0x7448bc125010, channel_model = 0x0}
nextRxTimestamp 3226026875
As you can see all executables are in have_to_wait state.
Robert Schmidt
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