This was triggered by the test_total_space_limit_of_commitlog dtest.
When it passes a very large commitlog_segment_size_in_mb (1/6th of the
free memory size, in mb), segment_manager constructor limits max_size
to std::numeric_limits<position_type>::max() which is 0xffffffff.
This causes allocate_segment_ex to loop forever when writing the segment
file since `dma_write` returns 0 when the count is unaligned (seen 4095).
The fix here is to select a sligtly small maxsize that is aligned
down to a multiple of 1MB.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20210407121059.277912-1-bhalevy@scylladb.com>
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