From: Xiaohua Zhang Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:45:09 +0000 (+0800) Subject: Add more description of the project overview. X-Git-Tag: bronze-rc0~97 X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bf54690e2b56f1af492c11466d4d0440f514f27;p=pti%2Frtp.git Add more description of the project overview. Signed-off-by: Xiaohua Zhang Change-Id: I88af2026753e550b435adc017a50e97635584763 --- diff --git a/docs/overview.rst b/docs/overview.rst index b1366d6..9bd2a88 100644 --- a/docs/overview.rst +++ b/docs/overview.rst @@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ RTP Overview This project implements a real time platform to deploy the O-CU and O-DU. +In O-RAN architecture, the O-DU and O-CU could have different deployed scenarios. +In general the performance sensitive parts of the 5G stack require real time platform, +the platform should support the Preemptive Scheduling feature. + +For example, from implementation perspective, the non-virtualized DU, +VM based DU and container based DU are requiring a real time host system. +Following requirements are going to address the container based solution: + +1.Support Node Feature Discovery +2.Support CPU Affinity and Isolation +3.Support Dynamic HugePages Allocation + +And for the network requirements, the following should be supported: +1.Multiple Networking Interface +2.High performance data plane including the DPDK based vswitch and PCI pass-through/SR-IOV. + + This is based on Yocto/OpenEmbedded, so it includes a Yocto/OpenEmbedded compatible layers meta-oran and wrapper scripts to pull all required Yocto/OE layers to build out the reference platform.