Make sure an unreserved FN is picked and reserved when allocating and
scheduling an SBA.
In practice this has no change in behavior right now, since anyway using
an offset of 52 FNs ensure no USF or POLL has alredy been scheduled that
far in the future. Since it's also impossible to allocate more than 1
SBA per PDCH and RTS FN, we are also safe about multiple SBAs being
allocated, because we use a hardcoded offset of 52.
However, that could change in the future, when we dynamically tweak the
current offset of 52 FN based on information from BTS about its AGCH
queue load:
* If load is high, we may need to increase the offset since it
will take more time for the BTS to transmit the TBF and hence we must
reserve a TBF starting time further in the future (higher FN).
* If load turns low, we may schedule next SBA a bit more nearby in time
than the previously allocated SBA, hence here there could be a
collision.
Related: OS#5020
Change-Id: I2d4e21e2307de6c17748e8da5c7e149c947a7eb9
Take the time to also do small refactorings to clarify and simplify the
function, by using rts_next_fn() already available in pcu_utils.h and
getting rid of poll_tbf from tbf_candidates, which clearly follows
another objective.
Using PDCH UL Controller has the advantage that we don't need to check
poll_scheduled() on each TBF, but only do the query once.
Related: OS#5020
Change-Id: Ia60bb5249a9837dec1f42180e44d9848334d86d6
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
Pau Espin