That field is not needed anymore, and it works only under the assumption
that only 1 poll request can be active at a time per TBF, which is not
true.
Change-Id: I63a34a702f028b871530fb7caeb13e8ea1cc78ac
Value 'false' is always passed by all callers of the function, so
there's no need to pass it. Furthermore, since it's false, there's no
need to access poll_fn since RRBP will always be invalid.
Change-Id: Ia48ce2a021865e76e813dedb22aca9c2522c5693
The poll_state logic was part of previous implementation (prior to pdch
ul controller) where the ssumption was that TBF could only had 1 POLL
request in transit, which is really not true. With current
infrastructure we don't need this state tracking at all.
Change-Id: Ie5b807ccd38aa736ae11b3310ca61ad0156ca4d4
There's no good reason to allow only for 1 concurrent POLL requested to
a TBF, it was onyl done this was as an implementation limitation factor.
It can well happen that several multiple POLLs may be in transit at the
same time, eg to get DL ACK/NACK as well as to get a CTRL ACK for a Pkt
Cell Change Continue (NACC).
Change-Id: Ic4080db684a4626cae90dd574d123081981284ca
This API is not really needed anymore, since anyway it works under the
assumption there can only be 1 POLL in transit per TBF, which isn't
necessarily true.
Change-Id: I875f51cade95faeb2d79dcebfead4c83e23a731b
This way PCU can now detect whether scheduled UL blocks through USF
were never received. This allows in a follow-up patch to start
increasing N3101 properly.
Related: OS#5033
Change-Id: Ia99c9edad6e5bd837e9baeb4fb2683b227887957
TbfTest is updated to submit empty blocks to have somehow meaningful
output (at least as meaningful test results as before, not much). That's
because we must update bts->curr_fn to have polls expire.
Related: OS#5020
Change-Id: I683ca738ce5a133c49c36a1d94439a942d64a831
Right now we handle different types of UL allocations in different
classes like PollAllocator and SBAllocator, and they usually don't take
into account the other one in most cases. Furthermore, those objects are
usually per-BTS object, instead of per PDCH object.
This is a first step towards having a unified per-PDCH controller which
takes care of controlling what is scheduled and hence expected on the
uplink. Each PDCH has a UL Controller which keeps track of all reserved
uplink frame, be it SB, RRBP poll or USF assigned, all under the same
API.
As a first step, only the SBA part is fully implemented and used (being
it the easiest part to replace); TBF poll+usf will come in follow-up
patches later on. As a result, the SBAllocator per-BTS class dissappears
but some of its code is refactored/reused to provide more features to the
gprs_rlcmac_sba object, which is also further integrated into the new UL
Controller.
Related: OS#5020
Change-Id: I84b24beea4a1aa2c1528f41435f77bd16df2b947
Since recently (see Depends below), BTS side submits DATA.ind with len=0
to announce nothing was received on that UL block FN. This will allow
osmo-pcu track time more accurately, and use this information to quickly
find out if a UL block was expected as requested by RRBP or USF poll and
increment counters such as N3101 (finally being able to properly
implement timers such as T3619).
Depends: osmo-bts.git Change-Id I343c7a721dab72411edbca816c8864926bc329fb
Related: OS#5020
Change-Id: Ibc495173119465e74f726ddc36e312334e6dc0fd
If Idle TBF timer (X2031) is set to 0, it means the TBF release is
immediately started once all queued data has been scheduled. In that
case, we must set FBI=1 (by setting cv=0) and move to FINISH state.
This used to work over the usual path where X2031 != 0, because release
start will alays happen at a later sched poll time where a dummy LLC
frame is sent and FBI set accordingly.
Change-Id: Ib20602936ae084c413f6bfe14eea33b602020be0
Old commit getting rid of LLC UI dummy and updating create_new_bsn()
function introduced a bug by not moving update of value m_last_dl_drained_fn
prior to a new break introduced.
As a result, the value is not updated in the case LLC queue becomes
drained but last few bytes are drained at exactly that moment.
Furthermore, then the IDLE tbf timer (X2031, keep_open())) returns always
true since according to it the drain never happened.
The impact of the bug is basically delaying a bit more than expected the
time the TBF stays in IDLE state with the TBF release process yet
to be started.
Related: OS#4849
Fixes: 7d0f9a0ec3
Change-Id: I7420aeffda3500bcdc990291e4a56511af433ff9
Currently the BTS object (and gprs_rlcmac_bts struct) are used to hold
both PCU global fields and BTS specific fields, all mangled together.
The BTS is even accessed in lots of places by means of a singleton.
This patch introduces a new struct gprs_pcu object aimed at holding all
global state, and several fields are already moved from BTS to it. The
new object can be accessed as global variable "the_pcu", reusing and
including an already exisitng "the_pcu" global variable only used for
bssgp related purposes so far.
This is only a first step towards having a complete split global pcu and
BTS, some fields are still kept in BTS and will be moved over follow-up
smaller patches in the future (since this patch is already quite big).
So far, the code still only supports one BTS, which can be accessed
using the_pcu->bts. In the future that field will be replaced with a
list, and the BTS singletons will be removed.
The cur_fn output changes in TbfTest are actually a side effect fix,
since the singleton main_bts() now points internally to the_pcu->bts,
hence the same we allocate and assign in the test. Beforehand, "the_bts"
was allocated in the stack while main_bts() still returned an unrelated
singleton BTS object instance.
Related: OS#4935
Change-Id: I88e3c6471b80245ce3798223f1a61190f14aa840
It is expected that the tbf object is freed at any moment in time, for
instance if osmo-pcu drops PCUIF connection with osmo-bts. I couldn't
find any reason why it would e dangerous to free the tbf, so let's
remove this message.
related: OS#4779
Change-Id: I4ab5ccaa5bf6257b18d8fd5ba06baab083821817
According to:
* 3GPP TS 44.060 version 16.0.0 "9.3.1a Delayed release of downlink Temporary Block Flow"
* 3GPP TS 44.064 version 16.0.0 "6.4.2.2 Unconfirmed Information (UI) Dummy command"
LLC UI Dummy frames are to be used when there no more data to send, only
in order to delay the release of a TBF. Hence, while not incorrect per
se, makes no sense to send those LLC UI Dummy frames inserted into
rlcmac blocks which already contain other LLC frames, since the MS in
that case is already being kept active.
It only makes sense to send those LLC UI Dummy frames when we have
nothing else to send, that is, alone inside a RLCMAC block without other
LLC frames.
Related: OS#4849
Change-Id: Ifae1a7b2b3dfad8df19585063088ba0df2749c8f
In previous status, if USF for GPRS-only MS was selected, then EGPRS
TBFs were skipped and either a GPRS TBF was selected or a Dummy Block
was sent. That means the behavior was unfair towards EGPRS TBFs, because
sometimes they were skipped in favor of GPRS ones.
This patch imporves the situation in the above mentioned USF scenario, by
first, under specific conditions, allowing selection of an EGPRS TBF and
then forcing it to transmit in EGPRS-GMSK (MCS1-4) so that the
USF-targeted MS can still decode the USF, while at the same time
providing more fairness by allowing the EGPRS TBF to transmit data.
The specific conditions mentioned above are, mainly, related to the fact
that once a DL data block has been sent, and hence a BSN was assigned to
it, it cannot be retransmitted later using another MCS, since lower
MCS1-4 wouldn't be able to contain higher MCS RLC payload.
The set of conditions could be expanded in the future by also selecting
the EGPRS TBF if retransmition is required and the block to be
retransmitted was originally transmitted as MCS1-4.
Related: OS#4544
Change-Id: I9af23e175435fe9ae7b0e4119ad52fcd4707b9ca
The assumption that TLLI 0x00000000 is invalid and can be used
as the initializer is wrong. Similar to TMSI, 0x00000000 is a
perfectly valid value, while 0xffffffff is reserved - use it.
According to 3GPP TS 23.003, section 2.4, a TMSI/P-TMSI with
all 32 bits equal to 1 is special and shall not be allocated by
the network. The reason is that it must be stored on the SIM,
where 'ff'O represents the erased state. According to section
2.6 of the same document, a local/foreign TLLI is derived from
P-TMSI, so the same rule applies to TLLI.
I manually checked and corrected all occurances of 'tlli' in the
code. The test expectations have been adjusted with this command:
$ find tests/ -name "*.err" | xargs sed -i "s/0x00000000/0xffffffff/g"
so there should be no behavior change. The only exception is
the 'TypesTest', where TLLI 0xffffffff is being encoded and
expected in the hexdump, so I regenerated the test output.
Change-Id: Ie89fab75ecc1d8b5e238d3ff214ea7ac830b68b5
Related: OS#4844
For instance if PCU received DL data to be sent to an MS from an SGSN,
and the MS is not currently cached in the PCU (because there's no TBF
active for it), it will page it and transmit the DL data to it.
The SGSN is capable of sending (EGPRS) MS Class information in that same
DL data message, so it's the one responsible for providing that
information if not available at the PCU.
In the PCU if we don't have information about that MS and SGSN didn't
provide us information about it, we cannot assume the MS is going to be
EGPRS capable and even less expecting a specific EGPRS MS class.
So let's drop this code.
Related: OS#4544
Change-Id: Icce66cadb51af25ae0c3b3719940eccb548fe33b
Some tests were wrong (TypesTest) and required modification, since they
were setting a EGPRS MS but then expecting a GPRS assignment.
Change-Id: I9d3ee21c765054a36bd22352e48bde5ffca9225a
This way everytime any program or test initiates a BTS object, the
bts_data structure has the same values.
Change-Id: Iffd6eecb1f08bda0091f45e2ef7c9c63b42e10b3
Before this patch, it would always allocate all TBFs on the first TRX
until all TFIs were filled, then second, and so on. But it would
actually fail around 8th MS requesting an UL TBF because despite a TFI
was successfuly assigned, because all USFs were already exhausted for
that PDCH.
Related: OS#1775
Change-Id: Iccfc8acfbfdc258ed16cc5af01f12b376fe73b72
Avoid passing tons of params to internal helper function
tbf_nel_dl_assignment() in order to either fetch again the ms object or
create a new one. Let's instead create the ms function earlier if needed
and fill it with all the discovered information prior to calling the
helper function. This provides cleaner code and also better log output.
This way we also avoid trying to fill the MS twice and unneeded
getter+setter for TA.
tbf::imsi(): There' always an ms, so simply forward call to
ms()->imsi().
We can also get rid of assign_imsi, since the modified code is the only
place where it's used and there's already some code in place there to
update the MS. We instead merge it with set_imsi and keep the
duplication code to catch possible bugs from callers.
Move merge_and_clear_ms from tbf class to GprsMS, where it really
belongs.
Change-Id: Id18098bac3cff26fc4a8d2f419e21641a1f4c83b
This is another step forward towards a more clear data model where a TBF
always has a MS object (which may be lacking some information, and at a
later point when more information is found, it may actually be a
duplicated MS object and hence one duplicate removed and the TBF moved
to the object being kept).
This helps for instance in removing duplicated information stored in
the TBF which is really per MS, like ms_class, ta, etc. Since there's
always a MS object there's no need to keep a duplicate in both classes
in case there's no MS object.
It can already be seen looking at unit test logging that this kind of
data model already provides better information.
Some unit test parts were needed to adapt to the new model too.
Change-Id: I3cdf4d53e222777d5a2bf4c5aad3a7414105f14c
In those cases since a string pointer was passed, it always printed
"single" instead of whatever really was being used, since the string
pointer was not NULL.
Change-Id: Idab7d18e8f519e10fc3df4007634661c46f9256d
In general we want to see explicitly the kind of requested allocation at
the start. The MS class is not needed since it's printed in the previous
log line in any case.
Change-Id: I9eb0a592c15be96da9d140ff373c1afead76b18c
Output of all diag in different lines is really confusing, since the
user reads a timeout ocurred and then later in another line something
like "Downlink ACK was received" while no GSMTAP message shows any ACK.
Change-Id: I6a7d79c16c930f0712bc73b308409ececb1946ba
The TLLI is tried to be updated later anyway during tbf_alloc_ul(), but
this way it's clear that information is stored where it belongs as soon
as possible. The change already shows clearer log lines in TbfTest.err.
Change-Id: I20ce4eb94ecf85ce2835275d0056d9ecd1b558c3
It's perfectly fine receiving a Resource Request message under some
circumstances (as stated in the comment added in the commit).
To print issues only under non-expected circumstances, the function
rcv_resource_request need to be refactored:
* Destroying older UL_TBF is delayed because it is needed further
down.
* When the old UL_TBF is FINISHED, it's an acceptable time to receive a
Resource request, so we check if that's the case and don't print a
warning in that case.
Change-Id: I4b4367126d6a16055cd2f45afc4a6b9c15a7c980
If the information is not found in the message, 0 (unknown MS class)
will be returned. If the MS already had some previous information on the
MS class, let's not lose it by setting it back to 0.
Take the opportunity to drop related log lines which are no needed,
since set_(egprs_)ms_class() functions already log the value changes.
Change-Id: Icd52209fd4395d78dc770e7869d1b1fe45a18ca0
There's no real good explanation on why the DL TBF is dropped there,
since PKT RESOUCE REQUEST is used basically during UL TBF establishment.
Also, as decribed by TS 44.060 11.2.16 "Packet Resource Request":
"""
This message is sent on the PACCH by the mobile station to the network
to request a change in the uplink resources assigned.
"""
Change-Id: Iab4afb66f0d671f7ad54909d2685a1613e12ab4d
Since commit 322456ed47 (and previous
one), it is expected that a tbf object ALWAYS has a MS object referend
to it, even if it's a temporary copy which will later be merged when
TLLI/IMSI is retrieved and it is found that several MS objects relate to
the same MS.
The purpose of set_tlli_from_ul was mainly to update TBF's ms() to
old_ms before going through usual tbf->update_ms() path. That's not
really needed since ms() is already always set and TBFs for old_ms are
already freed in update_ms() and children function.
Change-Id: Ie8795e7a02032336e53febb65c11f9150c36d2a0
This patch is a set of tightly related changes:
- group all RACH.ind parameters into struct 'rach_ind_params';
- group Channel Request parameters into struct 'chan_req_params';
- get rid of egprs_mslot_class_from_ra(), priority_from_ra(),
and is_single_block(), introduce unified parse_rach_ind();
- improve logging, get rid of redundant information.
This is needed for proper EGPRS Packet Channel Request handling.
Change-Id: I5fe7e0f51bf5c9eac073935cc4f4edd667c67c6e
Related: OS#1548
In normal conditions ACKing of UL blocks is only sent every
SEND_ACK_AFTER_FRAMES (20) frames. Which means if CV=0 is received (and
hence no more packets are received) less than 20 frames before a lost,
the PCU won't ask for a retransmission and wait there until some timer
destroys the TBF.
This issue is shown by TTCN3 test PCU_Tests.ttcn
TC_ul_intermediate_retrans.
Unit tests triggering this condition are adapted. Some similar tests are
not triggering it because BSN/CV relation being used is totally wrong
(like CV=0 being sent on a BSN with previous value than others).
Change-Id: I9b4ef7b7277efa645bdb5becf2e9f6b32c99a9b1
The function is simply setting the ta on the ms, so simply make sure ta
is set on callers before passing the ms object.
Change-Id: Iebb9c57f458690e045ddc45c800209ad8cf621e0
It's really non-sense from architectural point of view to pass an
optional pointer to the MS holding the TBF and creating it otherwise.
TBFs shouldn't be creating MS they belong too.
This simple change requiring so many code line changes really exhibits
how badly entangled the object relationship is.
Another commit will follow doing the same for dl tbf.
Change-Id: I010aa5877902816ae246e09ad5ad87946f96855c
Pau Espin
Pau Espin Pedrol
Vadim Yanitskiy