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author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2003-11-10 23:10:42 +0000 |
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committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2003-11-10 23:10:42 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/tor-design.tex b/doc/tor-design.tex index bc3f88f3c1..bd2ef4af9f 100644 --- a/doc/tor-design.tex +++ b/doc/tor-design.tex @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ reaches 0, it stops reading from streams destined for that OR. \textbf{Stream-level throttling}: The stream-level congestion control mechanism is similar to the -circuit-level mechanism above. ORs and OPs use \emph{relay sendme} cells +circuit-level mechanism. ORs and OPs use \emph{relay sendme} cells to implement end-to-end flow control for individual streams across circuits. Each stream begins with a packaging window (currently 500 cells), and increments the window by a fixed value (50) upon receiving a \emph{relay @@ -950,6 +950,11 @@ Currently, non-data relay cells do not affect the windows. Thus we avoid potential deadlock issues, for example, arising because a stream can't send a \emph{relay sendme} cell when its packaging window is empty. +These arbitrarily chosen parameters +%are probably not optimal; more +%research remains to find which parameters +seem to give tolerable throughput and delay; more research remains. + \Section{Other design decisions} \SubSection{Resource management and denial-of-service} |