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@@ -367,6 +367,17 @@ When either global or machine limits are reached, padding is no longer
scheduled. The machine simply becomes idle until the overhead drops below
the threshold.
+Finally, the consensus can also be used to specify that clients should
+use only machines that are flagged as reduced padding, or disable circuit
+padding entirely, with the following two parameters:
+
+ * circpad_padding_reduced=1
+ - Tells clients to only use padding machines with the
+ 'reduced_padding_ok' machine condition flag set.
+ * circpad_padding_disabled=1
+ - Tells clients to stop circuit padding immediately, and not negotiate
+ any further padding machines.
+
5.2. Overhead accounting
In order to monitor the quantity of padding to decide if we should alter