[lttng-dev] babeltrace python binding and multiple streams with out of order samples

[Carlo Caione]

Hi,
I'm using the babeltrace python bindings (v1.5.x) to convert some raw 
data I have into a CTF file.

This raw data is organized in fixed data chunks composed by serializing 
the events for each CPU:

[cpu0, cpu0, cpu0, ..., cpu1, cpu1, cpu1, ..., cpu2,... ]

Each event for each CPU has a timestamp that is monotonic within each 
CPU set.

I wanted to create one stream per CPU and since the events are the same 
for each CPU, I was using a single stream_class linked to a stream 
object for each CPU. Something in the structure similar to [0] with:

stream_cpu0 = writer.create_stream(stream_class)
stream_cpu1 = writer.create_stream(stream_class)
stream_cpu2 = writer.create_stream(stream_class)
...

The problem is that being the clock one for the stream_class when 
feeding the events to the library I get a:

ValueError: Invalid time value

When the first event on cpu1 is parsed, because the timestamp is in the 
past with respect to the timestamp of the latest event of the cpu0.

I can sort the events before feeding them to babeltrace but this seems 
sub-optimal to me. My question is: am I using the library correctly or 
there is any way to achieve this?

Thank you,

[0] https://lists.lttng.org/pipermail/lttng-dev/2015-November/025231.html

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Carlo Caione