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Author SHA1 Message Date
Nick Mathewson 0d75344b0e Switch to random allocation on circuitIDs.
Fixes a possible root cause of 11553 by only making 64 attempts at
most to pick a circuitID.  Previously, we would test every possible
circuit ID until we found one or ran out.

This algorithm succeeds probabilistically. As the comment says:

  This potentially causes us to give up early if our circuit ID
  space is nearly full.  If we have N circuit IDs in use, then we
  will reject a new circuit with probability (N / max_range) ^
  MAX_CIRCID_ATTEMPTS.  This means that in practice, a few percent
  of our circuit ID capacity will go unused.

  The alternative here, though, is to do a linear search over the
  whole circuit ID space every time we extend a circuit, which is
  not so great either.

This makes new vs old clients distinguishable, so we should try to
batch it with other patches that do that, like 11438.
2014-04-18 12:58:58 -04:00
Nick Mathewson bb9b4c37f8 Supply better and less frequent warnings on circID exhaustion
Fixes the surface behavior of #11553
2014-04-18 12:31:06 -04:00