commit 63204be48faccc2e8a7422944700cf899faa1f89
parent 501c58187d7c03cdbaf428fd268163e4d859e6b9
Author: Matt Traudt <sirmatt@ksu.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:22:31 -0400
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+ o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
+ - Introducing the KIST scheduler which stands for Kernel Informed Socket
+ Transport. It is only available on Linux systems. This comes from a
+ researched and published paper you can find here:
+
+ http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf
+ https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044
+
+ This is also a major refactoring of the entire scheduler subsystem in
+ order for it to be more modular and thus much more easier to add more
+ scheduler type later. The current scheduler has been named "Vanilla" but
+ we favor KIST if available in this version.
+
+ A new torrc option has been added and named "Schedulers type1,type2,..."
+ which allows a user to select which scheduler type it wants tor to use.
+ It is also possible to change it at runtime. It is an ordered list by
+ priority. KIST might not be available on all platforms so there is a
+ fallback to "KISTLite" that uses the same mechanisms but without the
+ kernel support.
+
+ The current default values are: Schedulers KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla.
+
+ Closes ticket 12541.
