8 Commits (7093a85f810bcb9a655f4bd8a77595d54067a3fc)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andre Puschmann a7911f0dab pdcp,rlc: refactor SDU queueing policy
this patch refactors the SDU queuing and dropping policy of the RLC and PDCP layer.
the previous design had issues when packets have been generated at a higher
rate above the PDCP than they could be consumed below the RLC.

When the RLC SDU queues were full, we allowed two policies, one to block on the write
and the other to drop the SDU. Both options are not ideal because they either
lead to a blocking stack thread or to lost PDCP PDUs.

To avoid this, this patch makes the following changes:

* PDCP monitors RLC's SDU queue and drops packets on its north-bound SAP if queues are full
  * a new method sdu_queue_is_full() has been added to the RLC interface for PDCP
* remove blocking write from pdcp and rlc write_sdu() interface
  * all writes into queues need to be non-blocking
  * if Tx queues are overflowing, SDUs are dropped above PDCP, not RLC
* log warning if RLC still needs to drop SDUs
  * this case should be avoided with the monitoring mechanism
5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 5e06430455 removal of stack handler interface 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 039977aeb5 renamed interfaces 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 1a9c04bf2f use of task scheduler handle in pdcp 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 4f5e65781f created task scheduler class to deal with timers, thread pool, multiqueue, internal tasks 5 years ago
Ismael Gomez e378a45db0 Reorganized priorities to avoid GW starve the CPU 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 3c2e3dbdbf added latest mac nr updates 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana b843585abc add srsgnb stack class 5 years ago