commit 5a86ea11743f83f69838674a81e1bb284320bd28
Author: teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 3 22:37:20 2015 +0200
Simplify implementation: avoid timers & additional connection lists
---
.../210-faster-headless-consensus-bootstrap.txt | 42 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proposals/210-faster-headless-consensus-bootstrap.txt
b/proposals/210-faster-headless-consensus-bootstrap.txt
index e5c8cb0..d527c2c 100644
--- a/proposals/210-faster-headless-consensus-bootstrap.txt
+++ b/proposals/210-faster-headless-consensus-bootstrap.txt
@@ -149,27 +149,28 @@ Implementation Notes: Code Modifications
eventually made through directory_initiate_command_rend().
There appear to be a few options for altering this code to retry multiple
- simultaneous connections. Without refactoring, one approach would be to
- set a connection retry helper function timer in
- directory_initiate_command_routerstatus() from
- directory_get_from_dirserver() if the purpose is
- DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_CONSENSUS and the only directory servers available
- are the authorities and the fallback dir mirrors. (That is, there is no
- valid consensus.) The retry helper function would check the list of
+ simultaneous connections. It looks like we can modify
+ update_consensus_networkstatus_downloads() to make connections more often
+ if the purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_CONSENSUS and there is no valid
+ (reasonably live) consensus. We can make multiple connections from
+ update_consensus_networkstatus_downloads(), as the sockets are non-blocking.
+ [ XXX - is this true for all platforms? ]
+ As long as we can tolerate a timer resolution of ~1 second (due to the use
+ of time_t), this requires no additional timers or callbacks. We can make 1
+ connection for each schedule per second, for a total of 2 per second, or 4
+ per second if the IPv4 and IPv6 schedules are implemented separately.
+
+ update_consensus_networkstatus_downloads() would also check the list of
pending connections and, if it is 10 or greater, skip the connection
attempt, and leave the retry time constant.
- The code in directory_initiate_command_rend() would then need to be
- altered to maintain a list of the dircons created for this purpose as
- well as avoid immediately queuing the directory_send_command() request
- for the DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_CONSENSUS purpose. A flag would need to be set
- on the dircon to be checked in connection_dir_finished_connecting().
-
- The function connection_dir_finished_connecting() would need to be
- altered to examine the list of pending dircons, determine if this one is
- the first to complete, and if so, then call directory_send_command() to
- download the consensus and close the other pending dircons.
- connection_dir_finished_connecting() would also cancel the timer.
+ The code in directory_initiate_command_rend() or
+ connection_dir_finished_connecting() would need to be altered to check that
+ we are not already downloading the consensus. If weâre not, then call
+ directory_send_command() to download the consensus, and close any other
+ pending consensus dircons. (We may still want to check our clock against an
+ authority by allowing a TLS connection to complete, then immediately closing
+ it.)
Reliability Analysis
@@ -186,8 +187,9 @@ Reliability Analysis
97% of clients succeed in the first 2 seconds.
99.4% of clients succeed without trying a second authority.
99.89% of clients succeed in the first 10 seconds.
- 0.11% of clients remain, but in this scenario, 2 authorities are down,
- so the client is most likely blocked from the Tor network.
+ 0.11% of clients remain, but in this scenario, 2 authorities are
+ unreachable, so the client is most likely blocked from the Tor
+ network.
The current implementation makes 1 or 2 authority connections within the
first second, depending on exactly how the first connection fails. Under
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