Karsten, I'll take a shot at it. Is there a specific timeline I should be aware of? My C is a little rusty and I am working to learn the codebase (This sounds like a good opportunity to learn more). I don't want to bite off more than I can chew if there is a tight release timeline.
Charlie On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Karsten Loesing <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear tor-devs, > > is anyone here up for a coding task that could help us research > performance improvements of the N23 design more? > > The situation is that we already have a branch (n23-5 in arma's public > repository), but it's based on 0.2.4.3-alpha-dev and needs to be rebased > to current master. > > In theory, it's as simple as the following steps: > > $ git clone https://git.torproject.org/tor.git > $ cd tor/ > $ git remote add arma https://git.torproject.org/arma/tor.git > $ git fetch arma > $ git checkout -b n23-5 arma/n23-5 > $ git fetch origin > $ git rebase origin/master > (clean up the mess) > $ git add > $ git commit > $ git rebase --continue > (back to clean-up-the-mess step until git is happy) > $ git push public n23-5 > > Bonus points if you make sure the branch compiles with gcc warnings > enabled, appeases make check-spaces, and runs peacefully in a private > Chutney network. > > Unfortunately, the n23-5 branch touches a few places in the tor code > that have been refactored in current master, including Andrea's > connection/channel rewrite. It might be necessary to dive into the > channel thing in order to get this rebase right. > > Once we have a refactored n23-5 branch, I'll try to simulate it in Shadow. > > For a tiny bit of context, this is for our sponsor F item 13: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/SponsorF/Year3 > > I'm asking here, because the usual suspects are already overloaded with > other stuff. As usual, I guess. > > Thanks, > Karsten > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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