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Bug 30173+29203: Document reduced+disabled padding consensus params

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Mike Perry 2019-04-18 19:27:31 +00:00
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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