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
There's no need for setting the FN in RA.ind since we anyway already
receive a DATA.ind beforehand.
Furthermore, the applied delay of 5 in the call is not really used at
all.
Change-Id: I437f4f95d054aea96bec3b9343e495451020ff3c
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
Let's disable category here since we don't care about its formatting here.
In any case, every test relying on logging output validation should
always explicitly state the config to avoid issues in the future if
default values change.
Change-Id: I7f9c56313cfaa74ebe666f44763a83d8102f5484
Related: OS#5034
This patch doesn't really tests whether osmo-pcu can work on a multi-bts
environment, but it prepares the data structures to be able to do so at
any later point in time.
Change-Id: I6b10913f46c19d438c4e250a436a7446694b725a
There's no real point in using C++ there, and using C++ makes the
compiler fail to use llist_head in multi-bts patches added later due to:
"""
'offsetof' within non-standard-layout type is conditionally-supported
"""
Change-Id: I8965b5cc5a713e64788b5b6aa183d3035341ddbb
There's no real use of C++ in that file, and it causes problems when
using llist_head entry macros in future patches adding initial support
for multiple BTS in PCU object, so let's move it to plain C.
Change-Id: Ic771a89fd78b5e66151a5384f0ff6a8895589466
Previous work on BTS class started to get stuff out of the C++ struct
into a C struct (BTS -> struct gprs_glcmac_bts) so that some parts of
it were accessible from C code. Doing so, however, ended up being messy
too, since all code needs to be switching from one object to another,
which actually refer to the same logical component.
Let's instead rejoin the structures and make sure the struct is
accessible and usable from both C and C++ code by rewriting all methods
to be C compatible and converting 3 allocated suboject as pointers.
This way BTS can internally still use those C++ objects while providing
a clean APi to both C and C++ code.
Change-Id: I7d12c896c5ded659ca9d3bff4cf3a3fc857db9dd
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
As we integrate osmo-pcu more and more with libosmocore features, it
becomes really hard to use them since libosmocore relies heavily on C
specific compilation features, which are not available in old C++
compilers (such as designated initializers for complex types in FSMs).
GprsMs is right now a quite simple object since initial design of
osmo-pcu made it optional and most of the logic was placed and stored
duplicated in TBF objects. However, that's changing as we introduce more
features, with the GprsMS class getting more weight. Hence, let's move
it now to be a C struct in order to be able to easily use libosmocore
features there, such as FSMs.
Some helper classes which GprsMs uses are also mostly move to C since
they are mostly structs with methods, so there's no point in having
duplicated APIs for C++ and C for such simple cases.
For some more complex classes, like (ul_,dl_)tbf, C API bindings are
added where needed so that GprsMs can use functionalitites from that
class. Most of those APIs can be kept afterwards and drop the C++ ones
since they provide no benefit in general.
Change-Id: I0b50e3367aaad9dcada76da97b438e452c8b230c
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
BTS simply notifies the PCU about the supported MCS, and PCU is
responsible for providing correct data formatting supported for the BTS
and the target MS.
Related: OS#4544
Change-Id: Ifcf23771bd23afc64ca6fea38948f98f2d134ecb
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
If SGSN provides us with MS class information upon DL data, let's use it
and set it in an already existing MS object if not yet known.
Also remove all unneeded code passing ms_class to append_data() which
would simply try to (again) set the ms_class.
Change-Id: I4979c9344bffd3ba7657bbab94981d233eab801f
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
Return an interface to the window base class so that the tbf base class
can access the common window methods, such as set_ws(). It will be used
in next commit to get rid of duplicated function enable_egprs in both
dl_tbf and ul_tbf subclasses.
The user of the function can then decide to access more specific
functionaltiites of the window class by static casting it to the
specific direction (which is known by the caller since it operates on a
ul_tbf or a dl_tbf).
Change-Id: Ia2e1decf91be1184668e28297c2126affb9c7ae4
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
Pau Espin
Pau Espin Pedrol
Harald Welte
Vadim Yanitskiy