[tor-dev] Connection, Channel and Scheduler - An Intense Trek

2017-10-30 Thread David Goulet
Hello everyone! DISCLAIMER: The following is enormous and tries to describe in some level of details the situation in tor with connection<->channel<->scheduler. This comes after we've merged the KIST scheduler, we've realized many things we'ren't what they were suppose to be or meant for. In the e

Re: [tor-dev] Understanding the guard/md issue (#21969)

2017-10-30 Thread George Kadianakis
teor writes: >> On 29 Oct 2017, at 01:19, George Kadianakis wrote: >> >> >> >> Let me know what you think! Perhaps you have other ideas here of how we >> should approach this issue. > > Fix #23817 by implementing a failure cache and going to a fallback if all > primary guards fail. I think th

Re: [tor-dev] Understanding the guard/md issue (#21969)

2017-10-30 Thread teor
-- Tim / teor PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n > On 30 Oct 2017, at 22:30, George Kadianakis wrote: > > teor writes: > >>> On 29 Oct 2017, at 01:19, George Kadianakis wr

Re: [tor-dev] Understanding the guard/md issue (#21969)

2017-10-30 Thread George Kadianakis
teor writes: >> On 29 Oct 2017, at 01:19, George Kadianakis wrote: >> >> Hey Tim, >> >> just wanted to ask a clarifying question wrt #21969. >> >> First of all there are various forms of #21969 (aka the "missing >> descriptors for some of our primary entry guards" issue). Sometimes it >> occu