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Bug #4771

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Don't log NOTICE messages on missing uplink bursts

Added by laforge over 3 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
Stalled
Priority:
High
Assignee:
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
10/01/2020
Due date:
% Done:

80%

Spec Reference:
Actions #1

Updated by laforge over 3 years ago

  • Assignee set to fixeria
  • Priority changed from Normal to High

From a private conversation:

fixeria wrote:

there are some errors reported in osmo-bts.log when activate-all-lchan' command is sent

this is expected, because the BTS does not receive valid Uplink bursts on active channels. Instead, osmo-trx sends NOPE indications to osmo bts-trx, and some of them trigger Viterbi decoder. We can probably think about a possibility to suppress those NOTICE messages as they fill up systemd-journal quite quickly, but I don't see an easy way. AFAIK, there is no way to tell the BTS whether a given Channel Activation is for load testing or for normal subscriber connection.

There are several topics:
  • bad uplink radio channel and lack of uplink bursts are pretty normal in any real-world deployment, imagine
    somebody going into the basement while having a call. So it's questionable whether such behavior should
    trigger any logging at all, at leats not on a per-burst or per-frame level. One can see the bad
    RxLev/RxQual in measurements every 480ms, or maybe we can log the radio link timeout, but those happen at
    very high intervals and won't spam the logs.
  • our old discussion whether or not to introdcue log rate limiting
  • the possibility to represent such problems with error / rate counters, rather than log lines
Actions #2

Updated by laforge over 3 years ago

Actions #3

Updated by fixeria over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 0 to 80

https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bts/+/25270 osmo-bts-trx: add rate counter for Uplink block decoding errors [NEW]
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bts/+/25271 osmo-bts-trx: use LOGL_DEBUG for Uplink block decoding errors [NEW]

Actions #4

Updated by laforge over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Stalled

fixeria wrote in #note-3:

https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bts/+/25270 osmo-bts-trx: add rate counter for Uplink block decoding errors [NEW]
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bts/+/25271 osmo-bts-trx: use LOGL_DEBUG for Uplink block decoding errors [NEW]

patches are outdated and lacking review. Marking thicket as stalled. Would proably be good to get it solved.

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