Add support for offsetting the voting interval in order to bootstrap faster.

A new option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset is added which offsets the
starting time of the voting interval. This is possible only when
TestingTorNetwork is set.

This patch makes run_scheduled_events() check for new consensus
downloads every second when TestingTorNetwork, instead of every
minute. This should be fine, see #8532 for reasoning.

This patch also brings MIN_VOTE_SECONDS and MIN_DIST_SECONDS down from
20 to 2 seconds, unconditionally. This makes sanity checking of
misconfiguration slightly less sane.

Addresses #8532.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/or/main.c b/src/or/main.c
index 90ffba36d3..9e4efefdbb 100644
--- a/src/or/main.c
+++ b/src/or/main.c
@@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ run_scheduled_events(time_t now)
   static time_t time_to_check_v3_certificate = 0;
   static time_t time_to_check_listeners = 0;
   static time_t time_to_check_descriptor = 0;
+  static time_t time_to_download_networkstatus = 0;
   static time_t time_to_shrink_memory = 0;
   static time_t time_to_try_getting_descriptors = 0;
   static time_t time_to_reset_descriptor_failures = 0;
@@ -1442,10 +1443,18 @@ run_scheduled_events(time_t now)
     networkstatus_v2_list_clean(now);
     /* Remove dead routers. */
     routerlist_remove_old_routers();
+  }
 
-    /* Also, once per minute, check whether we want to download any
-     * networkstatus documents.
-     */
+  /* 2c. Every minute (or every second if TestingTorNetwork), check
+   * whether we want to download any networkstatus documents. */
+
+/* How often do we check whether we should download network status
+ * documents? */
+#define CHECK_NETWORKSTATUS_DOWNLOAD_INTERVAL (60)
+
+  if (time_to_download_networkstatus < now && !options->DisableNetwork) {
+    time_to_download_networkstatus = now +
+      options->TestingTorNetwork ? 1 : CHECK_NETWORKSTATUS_DOWNLOAD_INTERVAL;
     update_networkstatus_downloads(now);
   }