this is a rather large commit that is hard to split because
it touches quite a few components.
It's a preparation patch for adding NR split bearers in the next
step.
We realized that managing RLC and PDCP bearers for both NR and LTE
in the same entity doesn't work. This is because we use the LCID
as a key for all accesses. With NR dual connectivity however we
can have the same LCID active at the same time for both LTE and NR
carriers.
The patch solves that by creating a dedicated NR instance for RLC/PDCP
in the stack. But then the question arises for UL traffic on, e.g. LCID 4
what PDCP instance the GW should use for pushing SDUs. It doesnt' know
that. And in fact it doesn't need to. It just needs to know EPS
bearer IDs. So the next change was to remove the knowledge of what
LCIDs are from the GW. Make is agnostic and only work on EPS bearer IDs.
The handling and mapping between EPS bearer IDs and LCIDs for LTE
or NR (mainly PDCP for pushing data) is done in the Stack because
it has access to both.
The NAS also has a EPS bearer map but only knows about default and
dedicated bearers. It doesn't know on which logical channels they
are transmitted.
this patch mainly modernizes the bearer creation to use smart pointers.
that allows to simplify the error handling.
ue_stack is changed to match new interface. This commit compiles
but doesn't work.
the test verifies that the ACK_SN of a status PDU falls inside the
rx_window of the receiver. If not, than the RLC state has been
corrupted and the status PDU is likely invalid.
we had it returning int but had a bug in using the return value properly,
i.e. handling when -1 was returned in RLC TM.
Thinking about it more, it doesn't make sense to have a negative return
value here anyway. Either the RLC can return a PDU or not. If it can't the
returned lenght is zero.
it seems that different SNs should be retransmitted depending
on the actual situation. In case of pollRetx timer expiration,
vt_s - 1 should actually be resent.
This patch prepares the function to accept different SNs but
leaves it to send vt_a by default. The RLC AM test would need
to changed as well to not fail.
avoiding any allocations.
Each segment stores its own PDCP SN and RLC SN and has two pointers,
one for the next segment of the same RLC PDU, and another for the next segment
of the same PDCP PDU.
the current value of 256 limits the number of PDCP SDUs that can be
notified from RLC. The limit is quickly hit when too many SDUs
are in flight. This can cause unwanted log entries and weird PDCP
behaviour.
the patch increases the value to 1024, which still can be too few if
many smaller SDUs are traveling.
The patch also set the log level to warning to quicker spot
misconfigs in logs.
Fixes#2616
Codebot
Pedro Alvarez
Robert Falkenberg
Andre Puschmann
Francisco
Ismael Gomez
David Rupprecht
David Rupprecht
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