[or-cvs] [tor/master] add mikeperry's notes about fairer round-robin for rate limiting

[Nick Mathewson]

Author: Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:04:31 -0400
Subject: add mikeperry's notes about fairer round-robin for rate limiting
Commit: 7df5c031e8deea647a23ff102de0b2c29d5a59ed

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+# The following two algorithms 
+
+
+# Algorithm 1
+# TODO: Burst and Relay/Regular differentiation
+
+BwRate = Bandwidth Rate in Bytes Per Second
+GlobalWriteBucket = 0
+GlobalReadBucket = 0
+Epoch = Token Fill Rate in seconds: suggest 50ms=.050
+SecondCounter = 0
+MinWriteBytes = Minimum amount bytes per write
+
+Every Epoch Seconds:
+  UseMinWriteBytes = MinWriteBytes
+  WriteCnt = 0
+  ReadCnt = 0
+  BytesRead = 0
+
+  For Each Open OR Conn with pending write data:
+    WriteCnt++  
+  For Each Open OR Conn:
+    ReadCnt++  
+
+  BytesToRead = (BwRate*Epoch + GlobalReadBucket)/ReadCnt
+  BytesToWrite = (BwRate*Epoch + GlobalWriteBucket)/WriteCnt
+
+  if BwRate/WriteCnt < MinWriteBytes:
+    # If we aren't likely to accumulate enough bytes in a second to
+    # send a whole cell for our connections, send partials
+    Log(NOTICE, "Too many ORCons to write full blocks. Sending short packets.")
+    UseMinWriteBytes = 1
+    # Other option: We could switch to plan 2 here
+
+  # Service each writable ORConn. If there are any partial writes, 
+  # return remaining bytes from this epoch to the global pool
+  For Each Open OR Conn with pending write data:
+    ORConn->write_bucket += BytesToWrite
+    if ORConn->write_bucket > UseMinWriteBytes:
+      w = write(ORConn, MIN(len(ORConn->write_data), ORConn->write_bucket))
+      # possible that w < ORConn->write_data here due to TCP pushback.
+      # We should restore the rest of the write_bucket to the global
+      # buffer
+      GlobalWriteBucket += (ORConn->write_bucket - w)
+      ORConn->write_bucket = 0
+ 
+  For Each Open OR Conn:
+    r = read_nonblock(ORConn, BytesToRead)
+    BytesRead += r
+
+  SecondCounter += Epoch
+  if SecondCounter < 1:
+    # Save unused bytes from this epoch to be used later in the second
+    GlobalReadBucket += (BwRate*Epoch - BytesRead)
+  else:
+    SecondCounter = 0
+    GlobalReadBucket = 0
+    GlobalWriteBucket = 0
+    For Each ORConn:
+      ORConn->write_bucket = 0
+
+
+
+# Alternate plan for Writing fairly. Reads would still be covered
+# by plan 1 as there is no additional network overhead for short reads,
+# so we don't need to try to avoid them.
+# 
+# I think this is actually pretty similar to what we do now, but 
+# with the addition that the bytes accumulate up to the second mark
+# and we try to keep track of our position in the write list here
+# (unless libevent is doing that for us already and I just don't see it)
+#
+# TODO: Burst and Relay/Regular differentiation
+
+# XXX: The inability to send single cells will cause us to block
+# on EXTEND cells for low-bandwidth node pairs..
+BwRate = Bandwidth Rate in Bytes Per Second
+WriteBytes = Bytes per write
+Epoch = MAX(MIN(WriteBytes/BwRate, .333s), .050s)
+
+SecondCounter = 0
+GlobalWriteBucket = 0
+
+# New connections are inserted at Head-1 (the 'tail' of this circular list)
+# This is not 100% fifo for all node data, but it is the best we can do
+# without insane amounts of additional queueing complexity.
+WriteConnList = List of Open OR Conns with pending write data > WriteBytes
+WriteConnHead = 0
+
+Every Epoch Seconds:
+  GlobalWriteBucket += BwRate*Epoch
+  WriteListEnd = WriteConnHead
+
+  do
+    ORCONN = WriteConnList[WriteConnHead]
+    w = write(ORConn, WriteBytes)
+    GlobalWriteBucket -= w
+    WriteConnHead += 1
+  while GlobalWriteBucket > 0 and WriteConnHead != WriteListEnd
+
+  SecondCounter += Epoch
+  if SecondCounter >= 1:
+    SecondCounter = 0
+    GlobalWriteBucket = 0
+
+
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