Fix: grab more than one packet for snapshots
There are a few issues with snapshot size: when taking a snapshot
without specifying any "max size" (should be unlimited), only a single
packet from each stream is saved. We expect all stream available content
to be saved. There is a similar issue when a max size is specified.
Also, trying to make all streams save as much data has unexpected
corner-cases: for instance, if we have this configuration:
- kernel channels: 2 subbuffers of 1MB x 8 CPUs
- per-PID UST channels: 16 subbuffers of 4kB x 8 CPUs x 100 apps
would require the user to have a very large max size, since it would try
to fit (8 + (100 * 8)) * 1MB = 808MB of sub-buffers, else it would fail.
This issue here is using the largest subbuffer size as the criterion
applied to all channels.
We fix those issues by simplifying the algorithm used to calculate how
much data to grab. Rather than calculating the size to grab from each
stream, we calculate a number of packets to grab. It fails if we cannot
grab at least one packet from each stream in the session. Then checks if
it can grab 2 packets from each stream, and so on, until there is no
more space available (based on max size). This is not a perfect
solution, but has the merit of being simple to understand, and has no
(or few) unexpected corner-cases.
Fixes #860
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
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