5 Commits (c6f4776a6f227e9f5345e002ae6928880a839f41)

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 cc52edf820 added latest pnf/vnf api updates 4 years ago
Francisco Paisana d7c7bb382a fix license year 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 2da8c923b1 removed commented code and fixed interfaces 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana b4b5cd7cd6 added nr gnb and ue interfaces 5 years ago