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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
Wireless Baseband Device Library
================================
The Wireless Baseband library provides a common programming framework that
abstracts HW accelerators based on FPGA and/or Fixed Function Accelerators that
assist with 3GPP Physical Layer processing. Furthermore, it decouples the
application from the compute-intensive wireless functions by abstracting their
optimized libraries to appear as virtual bbdev devices.
The functional scope of the BBDEV library are those functions in relation to
the 3GPP Layer 1 signal processing (channel coding, modulation, ...).
The framework currently only supports FEC function.
Design Principles
-----------------
The Wireless Baseband library follows the same ideology of DPDK's Ethernet
Device and Crypto Device frameworks. Wireless Baseband provides a generic
acceleration abstraction framework which supports both physical (hardware) and
virtual (software) wireless acceleration functions.
Device Management
-----------------
Device Creation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Physical bbdev devices are discovered during the PCI probe/enumeration of the
EAL function which is executed at DPDK initialization, based on
their PCI device identifier, each unique PCI BDF (bus/bridge, device,
function).
Virtual devices can be created by two mechanisms, either using the EAL command
line options or from within the application using an EAL API directly.
From the command line using the --vdev EAL option
.. code-block:: console
--vdev 'baseband_turbo_sw,max_nb_queues=8,socket_id=0'
Or using the rte_vdev_init API within the application code.
.. code-block:: c
rte_vdev_init("baseband_turbo_sw", "max_nb_queues=2,socket_id=0")
All virtual bbdev devices support the following initialization parameters:
- ``max_nb_queues`` - maximum number of queues supported by the device.
- ``socket_id`` - socket on which to allocate the device resources on.
Device Identification
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Each device, whether virtual or physical is uniquely designated by two
identifiers:
- A unique device index used to designate the bbdev device in all functions
exported by the bbdev API.
- A device name used to designate the bbdev device in console messages, for
administration or debugging purposes. For ease of use, the port name includes
the port index.
Device Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the application point of view, each instance of a bbdev device consists of
one or more queues identified by queue IDs. While different devices may have
different capabilities (e.g. support different operation types), all queues on
a device support identical configuration possibilities. A queue is configured
for only one type of operation and is configured at initialization time.
When an operation is enqueued to a specific queue ID, the result is dequeued
from the same queue ID.
Configuration of a device has two different levels: configuration that applies
to the whole device, and configuration that applies to a single queue.
Device configuration is applied with
``rte_bbdev_setup_queues(dev_id,num_queues,socket_id)``
and queue configuration is applied with
``rte_bbdev_queue_configure(dev_id,queue_id,conf)``. Note that, although all
queues on a device support same capabilities, they can be configured differently
and will then behave differently.
Devices supporting interrupts can enable them by using
``rte_bbdev_intr_enable(dev_id)``.
The configuration of each bbdev device includes the following operations:
- Allocation of resources, including hardware resources if a physical device.
- Resetting the device into a well-known default state.
- Initialization of statistics counters.
The ``rte_bbdev_setup_queues`` API is used to setup queues for a bbdev device.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_setup_queues(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t num_queues,
int socket_id);
- ``num_queues`` argument identifies the total number of queues to setup for
this device.
- ``socket_id`` specifies which socket will be used to allocate the memory.
The ``rte_bbdev_intr_enable`` API is used to enable interrupts for a bbdev
device, if supported by the driver. Should be called before starting the device.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_intr_enable(uint16_t dev_id);
Queues Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Each bbdev devices queue is individually configured through the
``rte_bbdev_queue_configure()`` API.
Each queue resources may be allocated on a specified socket.
.. code-block:: c
struct rte_bbdev_queue_conf {
int socket;
uint32_t queue_size;
uint8_t priority;
bool deferred_start;
enum rte_bbdev_op_type op_type;
};
Device & Queues Management
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After initialization, devices are in a stopped state, so must be started by the
application. If an application is finished using a device it can close the
device. Once closed, it cannot be restarted.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_start(uint16_t dev_id)
int rte_bbdev_stop(uint16_t dev_id)
int rte_bbdev_close(uint16_t dev_id)
int rte_bbdev_queue_start(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id)
int rte_bbdev_queue_stop(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id)
By default, all queues are started when the device is started, but they can be
stopped individually.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_queue_start(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id)
int rte_bbdev_queue_stop(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id)
Logical Cores, Memory and Queues Relationships
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bbdev poll mode device driver library supports NUMA architecture, in which
a processor's logical cores and interfaces utilize it's local memory. Therefore
with baseband operations, the mbuf being operated on should be allocated from memory
pools created in the local memory. The buffers should, if possible, remain on
the local processor to obtain the best performance results and buffer
descriptors should be populated with mbufs allocated from a mempool allocated
from local memory.
The run-to-completion model also performs better, especially in the case of
virtual bbdev devices, if the baseband operation and data buffers are in local
memory instead of a remote processor's memory. This is also true for the
pipe-line model provided all logical cores used are located on the same processor.
Multiple logical cores should never share the same queue for enqueuing
operations or dequeuing operations on the same bbdev device since this would
require global locks and hinder performance. It is however possible to use a
different logical core to dequeue an operation on a queue pair from the logical
core which it was enqueued on. This means that a baseband burst enqueue/dequeue
APIs are a logical place to transition from one logical core to another in a
packet processing pipeline.
Device Operation Capabilities
-----------------------------
Capabilities (in terms of operations supported, max number of queues, etc.)
identify what a bbdev is capable of performing that differs from one device to
another. For the full scope of the bbdev capability see the definition of the
structure in the *DPDK API Reference*.
.. code-block:: c
struct rte_bbdev_op_cap;
A device reports its capabilities when registering itself in the bbdev framework.
With the aid of this capabilities mechanism, an application can query devices to
discover which operations within the 3GPP physical layer they are capable of
performing. Below is an example of the capabilities for a PMD it supports in
relation to Turbo Encoding and Decoding operations.
.. code-block:: c
static const struct rte_bbdev_op_cap bbdev_capabilities[] = {
{
.type = RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_DEC,
.cap.turbo_dec = {
.capability_flags =
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_SUBBLOCK_DEINTERLEAVE |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_POS_LLR_1_BIT_IN |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_NEG_LLR_1_BIT_IN |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_TYPE_24B |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_DEC_TB_CRC_24B_KEEP |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_EARLY_TERMINATION,
.max_llr_modulus = 16,
.num_buffers_src = RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_MAX_CODE_BLOCKS,
.num_buffers_hard_out =
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_MAX_CODE_BLOCKS,
.num_buffers_soft_out = 0,
}
},
{
.type = RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_ENC,
.cap.turbo_enc = {
.capability_flags =
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24B_ATTACH |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24A_ATTACH |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_RATE_MATCH |
RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_RV_INDEX_BYPASS,
.num_buffers_src = RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_MAX_CODE_BLOCKS,
.num_buffers_dst = RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_MAX_CODE_BLOCKS,
}
},
RTE_BBDEV_END_OF_CAPABILITIES_LIST()
};
Capabilities Discovery
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Discovering the features and capabilities of a bbdev device poll mode driver
is achieved through the ``rte_bbdev_info_get()`` function.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_info_get(uint16_t dev_id, struct rte_bbdev_info *dev_info)
This allows the user to query a specific bbdev PMD and get all the device
capabilities. The ``rte_bbdev_info`` structure provides two levels of
information:
- Device relevant information, like: name and related rte_bus.
- Driver specific information, as defined by the ``struct rte_bbdev_driver_info``
structure, this is where capabilities reside along with other specifics like:
maximum queue sizes and priority level.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_driver_info 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_driver_info.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_info 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_info.
Capabilities details for LDPC Decoder
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On top of the ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_<*>`` capabilities
the device also exposes the LLR numerical representation
expected by the decoder as a fractional fixed-point representation.
For instance, when the representation (``llr_size``, ``llr_decimals``) = (8, 2) respectively,
this means that each input LLR in the data provided by the application must be computed
as 8 total bits (including sign bit)
where 2 of these are fractions bits (also referred to as S8.2 format).
It is up to the user application during LLR generation to scale the LLR
according to this optimal numerical representation.
Any mis-scaled LLR would cause wireless performance degradation.
The ``harq_buffer_size`` exposes the amount of dedicated DDR
made available for the device operation.
This is specific for accelerator non-integrated on the CPU (separate PCIe device)
which may include separate on-card memory.
Capabilities details for FFT function
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The total number of distinct time windows supported
for the post-FFT point-wise multiplication is exposed as ``fft_windows_num``.
The ``window_index`` provided for each cyclic shift
in each ``rte_bbdev_op_fft`` operation is expected to be limited to that size.
The information related to the width of each of these pre-configured window
is also exposed using the ``fft_window_width`` array.
This provides the number of non-null samples
used for each window index when scaling back the size to a reference of 1024 FFT.
The actual shape size is effectively scaled up or down
based on the dynamic size of the FFT operation being used.
This allows to distinguish different version of the flexible pointwise windowing
applied to the FFT and exposes this platform configuration to the application.
Other optional capabilities exposed during device discovery
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The device status can be used to expose additional information
related to the state of the platform notably based on its configuration state
or related to error management (correctable or non).
The queue topology exposed to the device is provided on top of the capabilities.
This provides the number of queues available
for the exposed bbdev device (the physical device may have more)
for each operation as well as the different level of priority available for arbitration.
These are based on the arrays and parameters
``num_queues``, ``queue_priority``, ``max_num_queues``, ``queue_size_lim``.
Operation Processing
--------------------
Scheduling of baseband operations on DPDK's application data path is
performed using a burst oriented asynchronous API set. A queue on a bbdev
device accepts a burst of baseband operations using enqueue burst API. On physical
bbdev devices the enqueue burst API will place the operations to be processed
on the device's hardware input queue, for virtual devices the processing of the
baseband operations is usually completed during the enqueue call to the bbdev
device. The dequeue burst API will retrieve any processed operations available
from the queue on the bbdev device, from physical devices this is usually
directly from the device's processed queue, and for virtual device's from a
``rte_ring`` where processed operations are placed after being processed on the
enqueue call.
Enqueue / Dequeue Burst APIs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The burst enqueue API uses a bbdev device identifier and a queue
identifier to specify the bbdev device queue to schedule the processing on.
The ``num_ops`` parameter is the number of operations to process which are
supplied in the ``ops`` array of ``rte_bbdev_*_op`` structures.
The enqueue function returns the number of operations it actually enqueued for
processing, a return value equal to ``num_ops`` means that all packets have been
enqueued.
.. code-block:: c
uint16_t rte_bbdev_enqueue_enc_ops(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id,
struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
uint16_t rte_bbdev_enqueue_dec_ops(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id,
struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
The dequeue API uses the same format as the enqueue API of processed but
the ``num_ops`` and ``ops`` parameters are now used to specify the max processed
operations the user wishes to retrieve and the location in which to store them.
The API call returns the actual number of processed operations returned, this
can never be larger than ``num_ops``.
.. code-block:: c
uint16_t rte_bbdev_dequeue_enc_ops(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id,
struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
uint16_t rte_bbdev_dequeue_dec_ops(uint16_t dev_id, uint16_t queue_id,
struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
Operation Representation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An encode bbdev operation is represented by ``rte_bbdev_enc_op`` structure,
and by ``rte_bbdev_dec_op`` for decode. These structures act as metadata
containers for all necessary information required for the bbdev operation to be
processed on a particular bbdev device poll mode driver.
.. code-block:: c
struct rte_bbdev_enc_op {
int status;
struct rte_mempool *mempool;
void *opaque_data;
union {
struct rte_bbdev_op_turbo_enc turbo_enc;
struct rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_enc ldpc_enc;
}
};
struct rte_bbdev_dec_op {
int status;
struct rte_mempool *mempool;
void *opaque_data;
union {
struct rte_bbdev_op_turbo_dec turbo_enc;
struct rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_dec ldpc_enc;
}
};
The operation structure by itself defines the operation type. It includes an
operation status, a reference to the operation specific data, which can vary in
size and content depending on the operation being provisioned. It also contains
the source mempool for the operation, if it is allocated from a mempool.
If bbdev operations are allocated from a bbdev operation mempool, see next
section, there is also the ability to allocate private memory with the
operation for applications purposes.
Application software is responsible for specifying all the operation specific
fields in the ``rte_bbdev_*_op`` structure which are then used by the bbdev PMD
to process the requested operation.
Operation Management and Allocation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bbdev library provides an API set for managing bbdev operations which
utilize the Mempool Library to allocate operation buffers. Therefore, it ensures
that the bbdev operation is interleaved optimally across the channels and
ranks for optimal processing.
.. code-block:: c
struct rte_mempool *
rte_bbdev_op_pool_create(const char *name, enum rte_bbdev_op_type type,
unsigned int num_elements, unsigned int cache_size,
int socket_id)
``rte_bbdev_*_op_alloc_bulk()`` and ``rte_bbdev_*_op_free_bulk()`` are used to
allocate bbdev operations of a specific type from a given bbdev operation mempool.
.. code-block:: c
int rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
int rte_bbdev_dec_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
``rte_bbdev_*_op_free_bulk()`` is called by the application to return an
operation to its allocating pool.
.. code-block:: c
void rte_bbdev_dec_op_free_bulk(struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops,
unsigned int num_ops)
void rte_bbdev_enc_op_free_bulk(struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops,
unsigned int num_ops)
BBDEV Inbound/Outbound Memory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bbdev operation structure contains all the mutable data relating to
performing Turbo and LDPC coding on a referenced mbuf data buffer. It is used for either
encode or decode operations.
.. csv-table:: Operation I/O
:header: "FEC", "In", "Out"
:widths: 20, 30, 30
"Turbo Encode", "input", "output"
"Turbo Decode", "input", "hard output"
" ", " ", "soft output (optional)"
"LDPC Encode", "input", "output"
"LDPC Decode", "input", "hard output"
"", "HQ combine (optional)", "HQ combine (optional)"
" ", "", "soft output (optional)"
It is expected that the application provides input and output mbuf pointers
allocated and ready to use.
The baseband framework supports FEC coding on Code Blocks (CB) and
Transport Blocks (TB).
For the output buffer(s), the application is required to provide an allocated
and free mbuf, to which the resulting output will be written.
The support of split "scattered" buffers is a driver-specific feature, so it is
reported individually by the supporting driver as a capability.
Input and output data buffers are identified by ``rte_bbdev_op_data`` structure,
as follows:
.. code-block:: c
struct rte_bbdev_op_data {
struct rte_mbuf *data;
uint32_t offset;
uint32_t length;
};
This structure has three elements:
- ``data``: This is the mbuf data structure representing the data for BBDEV
operation.
This mbuf pointer can point to one Code Block (CB) data buffer or multiple CBs
contiguously located next to each other. A Transport Block (TB) represents a
whole piece of data that is divided into one or more CBs. Maximum number of
CBs can be contained in one TB is defined by
``RTE_BBDEV_(TURBO/LDPC)MAX_CODE_BLOCKS``.
An mbuf data structure cannot represent more than one TB. The smallest piece
of data that can be contained in one mbuf is one CB.
An mbuf can include one contiguous CB, subset of contiguous CBs that are
belonging to one TB, or all contiguous CBs that belong to one TB.
If a BBDEV PMD supports the extended capability "Scatter-Gather", then it is
capable of collecting (gathering) non-contiguous (scattered) data from
multiple locations in the memory.
This capability is reported by the capability flags:
- ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_ENC_SCATTER_GATHER``, ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_DEC_SCATTER_GATHER``,
- ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_ENC_SCATTER_GATHER``, ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DEC_SCATTER_GATHER``.
Chained mbuf data structures are only accepted if a BBDEV PMD supports this
feature. A chained mbuf can represent one non-contiguous CB or multiple non-contiguous
CBs. The first mbuf segment in the given chained mbuf represents the first piece
of the CB. Offset is only applicable to the first segment. ``length`` is the
total length of the CB.
BBDEV driver is responsible for identifying where the split is and enqueue
the split data to its internal queues.
If BBDEV PMD does not support this feature, it will assume inbound mbuf data
contains one segment.
The output mbuf data though is always one segment, even if the input was a
chained mbuf.
- ``offset``: This is the starting point of the BBDEV (encode/decode) operation,
in bytes.
BBDEV starts to read data past this offset.
In case of chained mbuf, this offset applies only to the first mbuf segment.
- ``length``: This is the total data length to be processed in one operation,
in bytes.
In case the mbuf data is representing one CB, this is the length of the CB
undergoing the operation.
If it is for multiple CBs, this is the total length of those CBs undergoing
the operation.
If it is for one TB, this is the total length of the TB under operation.
In case of chained mbuf, this data length includes the lengths of the
"scattered" data segments undergoing the operation.
BBDEV Turbo Encode Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_turbo_enc 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_turbo_enc.
The Turbo encode structure includes the ``input`` and ``output`` mbuf
data pointers. The provided mbuf pointer of ``input`` needs to be big
enough to stretch for extra CRC trailers.
.. csv-table:: **struct rte_bbdev_op_turbo_enc** parameters
:header: "Parameter", "Description"
:widths: 10, 30
"input","input CB or TB data"
"output","rate matched CB or TB output buffer"
"op_flags","bitmask of all active operation capabilities"
"rv_index","redundancy version index [0..3]"
"code_block_mode","code block or transport block mode"
"cb_params", "code block specific parameters (code block mode only)"
"tb_params", "transport block specific parameters (transport block mode only)"
The encode interface works on both the code block (CB) and the transport block
(TB). An operation executes in "CB-mode" when the CB is standalone. While
"TB-mode" executes when an operation performs on one or multiple CBs that
belong to a TB. Therefore, a given data can be standalone CB, full-size TB or
partial TB. Partial TB means that only a subset of CBs belonging to a bigger TB
are being enqueued.
**NOTE:** It is assumed that all enqueued ops in one ``rte_bbdev_enqueue_enc_ops()``
call belong to one mode, either CB-mode or TB-mode.
In case that the TB is smaller than Z (6144 bits), then effectively the TB = CB.
CRC24A is appended to the tail of the CB. The application is responsible for
calculating and appending CRC24A before calling BBDEV in case that the
underlying driver does not support CRC24A generation.
In CB-mode, CRC24A/B is an optional operation.
The CB parameter ``k`` is the size of the CB (this maps to K as described
in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.2), this size is inclusive of CRC24A/B.
The ``length`` is inclusive of CRC24A/B and equals to ``k`` in this case.
Not all BBDEV PMDs are capable of CRC24A/B calculation. Flags
``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24A_ATTACH`` and ``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_CRC_24B_ATTACH``
informs the application with relevant capability. These flags can be set in the
``op_flags`` parameter to indicate to BBDEV to calculate and append CRC24A/B
to CB before going forward with Turbo encoding.
Output format of the CB encode will have the encoded CB in ``e`` size output
(this maps to E described in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.4.1.2). The output mbuf
buffer size needs to be big enough to hold the encoded buffer of size ``e``.
In TB-mode, CRC24A is assumed to be pre-calculated and appended to the inbound
TB mbuf data buffer.
The output mbuf data structure is expected to be allocated by the application
with enough room for the output data.
The difference between the partial and full-size TB is that we need to know the
index of the first CB in this group and the number of CBs contained within.
The first CB index is given by ``r`` but the number of the remaining CBs is
calculated automatically by BBDEV before passing down to the driver.
The number of remaining CBs should not be confused with ``c``. ``c`` is the
total number of CBs that composes the whole TB (this maps to C as
described in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.2).
The ``length`` is total size of the CBs inclusive of any CRC24A and CRC24B in
case they were appended by the application.
The case when one CB belongs to TB and is being enqueued individually to BBDEV,
this case is considered as a special case of partial TB where its number of CBs
is 1. Therefore, it requires to get processed in TB-mode.
The figure below visualizes the encoding of CBs using BBDEV interface in
TB-mode. CB-mode is a reduced version, where only one CB exists:
.. _figure_turbo_tb_encode:
.. figure:: img/turbo_tb_encode.*
Turbo encoding of Code Blocks in mbuf structure
BBDEV Turbo Decode Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_turbo_dec 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_turbo_dec.
The Turbo decode structure includes the ``input``, ``hard_output`` and
optionally the ``soft_output`` mbuf data pointers.
.. csv-table:: **struct rte_bbdev_op_turbo_dec** parameters
:header: "Parameter", "Description"
:widths: 10, 30
"input","virtual circular buffer, wk, size 3*Kpi for each CB"
"hard output","hard decisions buffer, decoded output, size K for each CB"
"soft output","soft LLR output buffer (optional)"
"op_flags","bitmask of all active operation capabilities"
"rv_index","redundancy version index [0..3]"
"iter_max","maximum number of iterations to perform in decode all CBs"
"iter_min","minimum number of iterations to perform in decoding all CBs"
"iter_count","number of iterations to performed in decoding all CBs"
"ext_scale","scale factor on extrinsic info (5 bits)"
"num_maps","number of MAP engines to use in decode"
"code_block_mode","code block or transport block mode"
"cb_params", "code block specific parameters (code block mode only)"
"tb_params", "transport block specific parameters (transport block mode only)"
Similarly, the decode interface works on both the code block (CB) and the
transport block (TB). An operation executes in "CB-mode" when the CB is
standalone. While "TB-mode" executes when an operation performs on one or
multiple CBs that belong to a TB. Therefore, a given data can be standalone CB,
full-size TB or partial TB. Partial TB means that only a subset of CBs belonging
to a bigger TB are being enqueued.
**NOTE:** It is assumed that all enqueued ops in one ``rte_bbdev_enqueue_dec_ops()``
call belong to one mode, either CB-mode or TB-mode.
The CB parameter ``k`` is the size of the decoded CB (this maps to K as described in
3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.2), this size is inclusive of CRC24A/B.
The ``length`` is inclusive of CRC24A/B and equals to ``k`` in this case.
The input encoded CB data is the Virtual Circular Buffer data stream, wk, with
the null padding included as described in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.4.1.2 and
shown in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.4.1 Figure 5.1.4-1.
The size of the virtual circular buffer is 3*Kpi, where Kpi is the 32 byte
aligned value of K, as specified in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.4.1.1.
Each byte in the input circular buffer is the LLR value of each bit of the
original CB.
``hard_output`` is a mandatory capability that all BBDEV PMDs support. This is
the decoded CBs of K sizes (CRC24A/B is the last 24-bit in each decoded CB).
Soft output is an optional capability for BBDEV PMDs. Setting flag
``RTE_BBDEV_TURBO_DEC_TB_CRC_24B_KEEP`` in ``op_flags`` directs BBDEV to retain
CRC24B at the end of each CB. This might be useful for the application in debug
mode.
An LLR rate matched output is computed in the ``soft_output`` buffer structure
for the given CB parameter ``e`` size (this maps to E described in
3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.4.1.2). The output mbuf buffer size needs to be big
enough to hold the encoded buffer of size ``e``.
The first CB Virtual Circular Buffer (VCB) index is given by ``r`` but the
number of the remaining CB VCBs is calculated automatically by BBDEV before
passing down to the driver.
The number of remaining CB VCBs should not be confused with ``c``. ``c`` is the
total number of CBs that composes the whole TB (this maps to C as
described in 3GPP TS 36.212 section 5.1.2).
The ``length`` is total size of the CBs inclusive of any CRC24A and CRC24B in
case they were appended by the application.
The case when one CB belongs to TB and is being enqueued individually to BBDEV,
this case is considered as a special case of partial TB where its number of CBs
is 1. Therefore, it requires to get processed in TB-mode.
The output mbuf data structure is expected to be allocated by the application
with enough room for the output data.
The figure below visualizes the decoding of CBs using BBDEV interface in
TB-mode. CB-mode is a reduced version, where only one CB exists:
.. _figure_turbo_tb_decode:
.. figure:: img/turbo_tb_decode.*
Turbo decoding of Code Blocks in mbuf structure
BBDEV LDPC Encode Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The operation flags that can be set for each LDPC encode operation are
given below.
**NOTE:** The actual operation flags that may be used with a specific
BBDEV PMD are dependent on the driver capabilities as reported via
``rte_bbdev_info_get()``, and may be a subset of those below.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Description of LDPC encode capability flags |
+====================================================================+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERLEAVER_BYPASS |
| Set to bypass bit-level interleaver on output stream |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_RATE_MATCH |
| Set to enabling the RATE_MATCHING processing |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24A_ATTACH |
| Set to attach transport block CRC-24A |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24B_ATTACH |
| Set to attach code block CRC-24B |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_16_ATTACH |
| Set to attach code block CRC-16 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_ENC_INTERRUPTS |
| Set if a device supports encoder dequeue interrupts |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_ENC_SCATTER_GATHER |
| Set if a device supports scatter-gather functionality |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_ENC_CONCATENATION |
| Set if a device supports concatenation of non byte aligned output |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
The structure passed for each LDPC encode operation is given below,
with the operation flags forming a bitmask in the ``op_flags`` field.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_enc 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_enc.
The LDPC encode parameters are set out in the table below.
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Parameter |Description |
+================+====================================================================+
|input |input CB or TB data |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|output |rate matched CB or TB output buffer |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|rv_index |redundancy version index [0..3] |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|basegraph |Basegraph 1 or 2 |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|z_c |Zc, LDPC lifting size |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|n_cb |Ncb, length of the circular buffer in bits. |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|q_m |Qm, modulation order {2,4,6,8,10} |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|n_filler |number of filler bits |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|code_block_mode |code block or transport block mode |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|**cb_params** |code block specific parameters (code block mode only) |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |e |E, length of the rate matched output sequence in bits |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
|**tb_params** | transport block specific parameters (transport block mode only) |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |c |number of CBs in the TB or partial TB |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |r |index of the first CB in the inbound mbuf data |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |c_ab |number of CBs that use Ea before switching to Eb |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |ea |Ea, length of the RM output sequence in bits, r < cab |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |eb |Eb, length of the RM output sequence in bits, r >= cab |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
The mbuf input ``input`` is mandatory for all BBDEV PMDs and is the
incoming code block or transport block data.
The mbuf output ``output`` is mandatory and is the encoded CB(s). In
CB-mode ut contains the encoded CB of size ``e`` (E in 3GPP TS 38.212
section 6.2.5). In TB-mode it contains multiple contiguous encoded CBs
of size ``ea`` or ``eb``.
The ``output`` buffer is allocated by the application with enough room
for the output data.
The encode interface works on both a code block (CB) and a transport
block (TB) basis.
**NOTE:** All enqueued ops in one ``rte_bbdev_enqueue_enc_ops()``
call belong to one mode, either CB-mode or TB-mode.
The valid modes of operation are:
* CB-mode: one CB (attach CRC24B if required)
* CB-mode: one CB making up one TB (attach CRC24A if required)
* TB-mode: one or more CB of a partial TB (attach CRC24B(s) if required)
* TB-mode: one or more CB of a complete TB (attach CRC24AB(s) if required)
In CB-mode if ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24A_ATTACH`` is set then CRC24A
is appended to the CB. If ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24A_ATTACH`` is not
set the application is responsible for calculating and appending CRC24A
before calling BBDEV. The input data mbuf ``length`` is inclusive of
CRC24A/B where present and is equal to the code block size ``K``.
In TB-mode, CRC24A is assumed to be pre-calculated and appended to the
inbound TB data buffer, unless the ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24A_ATTACH``
flag is set when it is the responsibility of BBDEV. The input data
mbuf ``length`` is total size of the CBs inclusive of any CRC24A and
CRC24B in the case they were appended by the application.
Not all BBDEV PMDs may be capable of CRC24A/B calculation. Flags
``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24A_ATTACH`` and ``RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_24B_ATTACH``
inform the application of the relevant capability. These flags can be set
in the ``op_flags`` parameter to indicate BBDEV to calculate and append
CRC24A to CB before going forward with LDPC encoding.
The difference between the partial and full-size TB is that BBDEV needs
the index of the first CB in this group and the number of CBs in the group.
The first CB index is given by ``r`` but the number of the CBs is
calculated by BBDEV before signalling to the driver.
The number of CBs in the group should not be confused with ``c``, the
total number of CBs in the full TB (``C`` as per 3GPP TS 38.212 section 5.2.2)
Figure :numref:`figure_turbo_tb_encode` above
showing the Turbo encoding of CBs using BBDEV interface in TB-mode
is also valid for LDPC encode.
BBDEV LDPC Decode Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The operation flags that can be set for each LDPC decode operation are
given below.
**NOTE:** The actual operation flags that may be used with a specific
BBDEV PMD are dependent on the driver capabilities as reported via
``rte_bbdev_info_get()``, and may be a subset of those below.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Description of LDPC decode capability flags |
+====================================================================+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_TYPE_24A_CHECK |
| Set for transport block CRC-24A checking |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_TYPE_24B_CHECK |
| Set for code block CRC-24B checking |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_TYPE_24B_DROP |
| Set to drop the last CRC bits decoding output |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_CRC_TYPE_16_CHECK |
| Set for code block CRC-16 checking |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DEINTERLEAVER_BYPASS |
| Set for bit-level de-interleaver bypass on input stream |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HQ_COMBINE_IN_ENABLE |
| Set for HARQ combined input stream enable |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HQ_COMBINE_OUT_ENABLE |
| Set for HARQ combined output stream enable |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DECODE_BYPASS |
| Set for LDPC decoder bypass |
| |
| RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HQ_COMBINE_OUT_ENABLE must be set |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DECODE_SOFT_OUT |
| Set for soft-output stream enable |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_SOFT_OUT_RM_BYPASS |
| Set for Rate-Matching bypass on soft-out stream |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_SOFT_OUT_DEINTERLEAVER_BYPASS |
| Set for bit-level de-interleaver bypass on soft-output stream |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_ITERATION_STOP_ENABLE |
| Set for iteration stopping on successful decode condition enable |
| |
| Where a successful decode is a successful syndrome check |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DEC_INTERRUPTS |
| Set if a device supports decoder dequeue interrupts |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_DEC_SCATTER_GATHER |
| Set if a device supports scatter-gather functionality |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HARQ_6BIT_COMPRESSION |
| Set if a device supports input/output HARQ compression |
| Data is packed as 6 bits by dropping and saturating the MSBs |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_LLR_COMPRESSION |
| Set if a device supports input LLR compression |
| Data is packed as 6 bits by dropping and saturating the MSBs |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_IN_ENABLE |
| Set if a device supports HARQ input to device's internal memory |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_OUT_ENABLE |
| Set if a device supports HARQ output to device's internal memory |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_LOOPBACK |
| Set if a device supports loopback access to HARQ internal memory |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_FILLERS |
| Set if a device includes LLR filler bits in HARQ circular buffer |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HARQ_4BIT_COMPRESSION |
|Set if a device supports input/output 4 bits HARQ compression |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
The structure passed for each LDPC decode operation is given below,
with the operation flags forming a bitmask in the ``op_flags`` field.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_dec 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_ldpc_dec.
The LDPC decode parameters are set out in the table below.
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Parameter |Description |
+================+====================================================================+
|input |input CB or TB data |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|hard_output |hard decisions buffer, decoded output |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|soft_output |soft LLR output buffer (optional) |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|harq_comb_input |HARQ combined input buffer (optional) |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|harq_comb_output|HARQ combined output buffer (optional) |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|rv_index |redundancy version index [0..3] |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|basegraph |Basegraph 1 or 2 |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|z_c |Zc, LDPC lifting size |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|n_cb |Ncb, length of the circular buffer in bits. |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|q_m |Qm, modulation order {1,2,4,6,8} from pi/2-BPSK to 256QAM |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|n_filler |number of filler bits |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|iter_max |maximum number of iterations to perform in decode all CBs |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|iter_count |number of iterations performed in decoding all CBs |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|code_block_mode |code block or transport block mode |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|**cb_params** |code block specific parameters (code block mode only) |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |e |E, length of the rate matched output sequence in bits |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
|**tb_params** | transport block specific parameters (transport block mode only) |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |c |number of CBs in the TB or partial TB |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |r |index of the first CB in the inbound mbuf data |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |c_ab |number of CBs that use Ea before switching to Eb |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |ea |Ea, length of the RM output sequence in bits, r < cab |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |eb |Eb, length of the RM output sequence in bits r >= cab |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| |k0 |Optional k0 Rate matching starting position override |
+----------------+------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
The mbuf input ``input`` encoded CB data is mandatory for all BBDEV PMDs
and is the Virtual Circular Buffer data stream with null padding.
Each byte in the input circular buffer is the LLR value of each bit of
the original CB.
The mbuf output ``hard_output`` is mandatory and is the decoded CBs size
K (CRC24A/B is the last 24-bit in each decoded CB).
The mbuf output ``soft_output`` is optional and is an LLR rate matched
output of size ``e`` (this is ``E`` as per 3GPP TS 38.212 section 6.2.5).
The mbuf input ``harq_combine_input`` is optional and is a buffer with
the input to the HARQ combination function of the device. If the
capability RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_IN_ENABLE is set
then the HARQ is stored in memory internal to the device and not visible
to BBDEV.
The mbuf output ``harq_combine_output`` is optional and is a buffer for
the output of the HARQ combination function of the device. If the
capability RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_INTERNAL_HARQ_MEMORY_OUT_ENABLE is set
then the HARQ is stored in memory internal to the device and not visible
to BBDEV.
.. note::
More explicitly for a typical usage of HARQ retransmission
in a VRAN application using a HW PMD, there will be 2 cases.
For 1st transmission, only the HARQ output is enabled:
- the harq_combined_output.offset is provided to a given address.
ie. typically an integer index * 32K,
where the index is tracked by the application based on code block index
for a given UE and HARQ process.
- the related operation flag would notably include
RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HQ_COMBINE_OUT_ENABLE and RTE_BBDEV_LDPC_HARQ_6BIT_COMPRESSION.
- note that no explicit flush or reset of the memory is required.
For 2nd transmission, an input is also required to benefit from HARQ combination gain:
- the changes mentioned above are the same (note that rvIndex may be adjusted).
- the operation flag would additionally include the LDPC_HQ_COMBINE_IN_ENABLE flag.
- the harq_combined_input.offset must be set to the address of the related code block
(ie. same as the harq_combine_output index above for the same code block, HARQ process, UE).
- the harq_combined_input.length must be set to the length
which was provided back in the related harq_combined_output.length
when it has processed and dequeued (previous HARQ iteration).
The output mbuf data structures are expected to be allocated by the
application with enough room for the output data.
As with the LDPC encode, the decode interface works on both a code block
(CB) and a transport block (TB) basis.
**NOTE:** All enqueued ops in one ``rte_bbdev_enqueue_dec_ops()``
call belong to one mode, either CB-mode or TB-mode.
The valid modes of operation are:
* CB-mode: one CB (check CRC24B if required)
* CB-mode: one CB making up one TB (check CRC24A if required)
* TB-mode: one or more CB making up a partial TB (check CRC24B(s) if required)
* TB-mode: one or more CB making up a complete TB (check CRC24B(s) if required)
The mbuf ``length`` is inclusive of CRC24A/B where present and is equal
the code block size ``K``.
The first CB Virtual Circular Buffer (VCB) index is given by ``r`` but the
number of the remaining CB VCBs is calculated automatically by BBDEV
and passed down to the driver.
The number of remaining CB VCBs should not be confused with ``c``, the
total number of CBs in the full TB (``C`` as per 3GPP TS 38.212 section 5.2.2)
The ``length`` is total size of the CBs inclusive of any CRC24A and CRC24B in
case they were appended by the application.
Figure :numref:`figure_turbo_tb_decode` above
showing the Turbo decoding of CBs using BBDEV interface in TB-mode
is also valid for LDPC decode.
BBDEV FFT Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This operation allows to run a combination of DFT and/or IDFT and/or time-domain windowing.
These can be used in a modular fashion (using bypass modes) or as a processing pipeline
which can be used for FFT-based baseband signal processing.
In more details it allows :
* to process the data first through an IDFT of adjustable size and padding;
* to perform the windowing as a programmable cyclic shift offset of the data
followed by a pointwise multiplication by a time domain window;
* to process the related data through a DFT of adjustable size and
de-padding for each such cyclic shift output.
A flexible number of Rx antennas are being processed in parallel with the same configuration.
The API allows more generally for flexibility in what the PMD may support (capability flags) and
flexibility to adjust some of the parameters of the processing.
The structure passed for each FFT operation is given below,
with the operation flags forming a bitmask in the ``op_flags`` field.
**NOTE:** The actual operation flags that may be used with a specific
bbdev PMD are dependent on the driver capabilities as reported via
``rte_bbdev_info_get()``, and may be a subset of those below.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_fft 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_fft.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Description of FFT capability flags |
+====================================================================+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_WINDOWING |
| Set to enable/support windowing in time domain |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_CS_ADJUSTMENT |
| Set to enable/support the cyclic shift time offset adjustment |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_DFT_BYPASS |
| Set to bypass the DFT and use directly the IDFT as an option |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_IDFT_BYPASS |
| Set to bypass the IDFT and use directly the DFT as an option |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_WINDOWING_BYPASS |
| Set to bypass the time domain windowing as an option |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_POWER_MEAS |
| Set to provide an optional power measurement of the DFT output |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_FP16_INPUT |
| Set if the input data shall use FP16 format instead of INT16 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_FP16_OUTPUT |
| Set if the output data shall use FP16 format instead of INT16 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_TIMING_OFFSET_PER_CS |
| Set if device supports adjusting time offset per CS |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_TIMING_ERROR |
| Set if device supports correcting for timing error |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_DEWINDOWING |
| Set if enabling the option FFT Dewindowing in Frequency domain |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|RTE_BBDEV_FFT_FREQ_RESAMPLING |
| Set if device supports the optional frequency resampling |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
The FFT parameters are set out in the table below.
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|Parameter |Description |
+=========================+==============================================================+
|base_input |input data |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|base_output |output data |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|dewindowing_input |optional frequency domain dewindowing input data |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|power_meas_output |optional output data with power measurement on DFT output |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|input_sequence_size |size of the input sequence in 32-bits points per antenna |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|input_leading_padding |number of points padded at the start of input data |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|output_sequence_size |size of the output sequence per antenna and cyclic shift |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|output_leading_depadding |number of points de-padded at the start of output data |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|window_index |optional windowing profile index used for each cyclic shift |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|cs_bitmap |bitmap of the cyclic shift output requested (LSB for index 0) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|num_antennas_log2 |number of antennas as a log2 (10 maps to 1024...) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|idft_log2 |IDFT size as a log2 |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|dft_log2 |DFT size as a log2 |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|cs_time_adjustment |adjustment of time position of all the cyclic shift output |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|idft_shift |shift down of signal level post iDFT |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|dft_shift |shift down of signal level post DFT |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|ncs_reciprocal |inverse of max number of CS normalized to 15b (ie. 231 for 12)|
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|power_shift |shift down of level of power measurement when enabled |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|fp16_exp_adjust |value added to FP16 exponent at conversion from INT16 |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|freq_resample_mode |frequency ressampling mode (0:transparent, 1-2: resample) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| output_depadded_size |output depadded size prior to frequency resampling |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|cs_theta_0 |timing error correction initial phase |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|cs_theta_d |timing error correction phase increment |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|time_offset |time offset per CS of time domain samples |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
The mbuf input ``base_input`` is mandatory for all bbdev PMDs and
is the incoming data for the processing. Its size may not fit into an actual mbuf,
but the structure is used to pass iova address.
The mbuf output ``output`` is mandatory and is output of the FFT processing chain.
Each point is a complex number of 32bits :
either as 2 INT16 or as 2 FP16 based when the option supported.
The data layout is based on contiguous concatenation of output data
first by cyclic shift then by antenna.
BBDEV MLD-TS Operation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This operation allows to run the Tree Search (TS) portion of a Maximum Likelihood processing (MLD).
This alternate equalization option accelerates the exploration of the best combination of
transmitted symbols across layers minimizing the Euclidean distance between the received and
reconstructed signal, then generates the LLRs to be used by the LDPC Decoder.
The input is the results of the Q R decomposition: Q^Hy signal and R matrix.
The structure passed for each MLD-TS operation is given below,
with the operation flags forming a bitmask in the ``op_flags`` field.
**NOTE:** The actual operation flags that may be used with a specific
bbdev PMD are dependent on the driver capabilities as reported via
``rte_bbdev_info_get()``, and may be a subset of those below.
.. literalinclude:: ../../../lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
:language: c
:start-after: Structure rte_bbdev_op_mldts 8<
:end-before: >8 End of structure rte_bbdev_op_mldts.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Description of MLD-TS capability flags |
+====================================================================+
|RTE_BBDEV_MLDTS_REP |
| Set if the option to use repeated data from R channel is supported |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
The MLD-TS parameters are set out in the table below.
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|Parameter |Description |
+=========================+==============================================================+
|qhy_input |input data qHy |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|r_input |input data R triangular matrix |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|output |output data (LLRs) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|op_flags |bitmask of all active operation capabilities |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|num_rbs |number of Resource Blocks |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|num_layers |number of overlapping layers |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|q_m |array of modulation order for each layer |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|r_rep |optional row repetition for the R matrix (subcarriers) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|c_rep |optional column repetition for the R matrix (symbols) |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Sample code
-----------
The baseband device sample application gives an introduction on how to use the
bbdev framework, by giving a sample code performing a loop-back operation with a
baseband processor capable of transceiving data packets.
The following sample C-like pseudo-code shows the basic steps to encode several
buffers using (**sw_turbo**) bbdev PMD.
.. code-block:: c
/* EAL Init */
ret = rte_eal_init(argc, argv);
if (ret < 0)
rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Invalid EAL arguments\n");
/* Get number of available bbdev devices */
nb_bbdevs = rte_bbdev_count();
if (nb_bbdevs == 0)
rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "No bbdevs detected!\n");
/* Create bbdev op pools */
bbdev_op_pool[RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_ENC] =
rte_bbdev_op_pool_create("bbdev_op_pool_enc",
RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_ENC, NB_MBUF, 128, rte_socket_id());
/* Get information for this device */
rte_bbdev_info_get(dev_id, &info);
/* Setup BBDEV device queues */
ret = rte_bbdev_setup_queues(dev_id, qs_nb, info.socket_id);
if (ret < 0)
rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
"ERROR(%d): BBDEV %u not configured properly\n",
ret, dev_id);
/* setup device queues */
qconf.socket = info.socket_id;
qconf.queue_size = info.drv.queue_size_lim;
qconf.op_type = RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_ENC;
for (q_id = 0; q_id < qs_nb; q_id++) {
/* Configure all queues belonging to this bbdev device */
ret = rte_bbdev_queue_configure(dev_id, q_id, &qconf);
if (ret < 0)
rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
"ERROR(%d): BBDEV %u queue %u not configured properly\n",
ret, dev_id, q_id);
}
/* Start bbdev device */
ret = rte_bbdev_start(dev_id);
/* Create the mbuf mempool for pkts */
mbuf_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create("bbdev_mbuf_pool",
NB_MBUF, MEMPOOL_CACHE_SIZE, 0,
RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE, rte_socket_id());
if (mbuf_pool == NULL)
rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
"Unable to create '%s' pool\n", pool_name);
while (!global_exit_flag) {
/* Allocate burst of op structures in preparation for enqueue */
if (rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk(bbdev_op_pool[RTE_BBDEV_OP_TURBO_ENC],
ops_burst, op_num) != 0)
continue;
/* Allocate input mbuf pkts */
ret = rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk(mbuf_pool, input_pkts_burst, MAX_PKT_BURST);
if (ret < 0)
continue;
/* Allocate output mbuf pkts */
ret = rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk(mbuf_pool, output_pkts_burst, MAX_PKT_BURST);
if (ret < 0)
continue;
for (j = 0; j < op_num; j++) {
/* Append the size of the ethernet header */
rte_pktmbuf_append(input_pkts_burst[j],
sizeof(struct rte_ether_hdr));
/* set op */
ops_burst[j]->turbo_enc.input.offset =
sizeof(struct rte_ether_hdr);
ops_burst[j]->turbo_enc->input.length =
rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(bbdev_pkts[j]);
ops_burst[j]->turbo_enc->input.data =
input_pkts_burst[j];
ops_burst[j]->turbo_enc->output.offset =
sizeof(struct rte_ether_hdr);
ops_burst[j]->turbo_enc->output.data =
output_pkts_burst[j];
}
/* Enqueue packets on BBDEV device */
op_num = rte_bbdev_enqueue_enc_ops(qconf->bbdev_id,
qconf->bbdev_qs[q], ops_burst,
MAX_PKT_BURST);
/* Dequeue packets from BBDEV device*/
op_num = rte_bbdev_dequeue_enc_ops(qconf->bbdev_id,
qconf->bbdev_qs[q], ops_burst,
MAX_PKT_BURST);
}
BBDEV Device API
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bbdev Library API is described in the *DPDK API Reference* document.
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