8 Commits (936e3b7bef8890ef5ff0d075e64d63e9ad6e3d3e)

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
4 years ago
Francisco Paisana 4f5e65781f created task scheduler class to deal with timers, thread pool, multiqueue, internal tasks 4 years ago
Francisco Paisana 30ae2226c1 common interface for stack multiqueue tasks, background tasks and timers 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 8aa44928e9 fix 5g compilation errors 5 years ago
Xavier Arteaga e832769ae6 Updated copyright 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez e1cdd51eba Clang-formated before pull request 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 61958af70b Timer removes itself from the map upon expiration 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 47a918d680 Split PDCP NR tests into multiple files 5 years ago