Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 213: Remove stream-level sendmes from the design

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 01:06:56 -0500 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:

If we ripped out stream-level sendmes, then as you say, we'd have to choose between "queue all the data for the stream, no matter how big it gets" and "tell the whole circuit to shut up".

A possible compromise: A stream level XOFF/XON instead of SENDME would allow us to save the flow control bandwidth for properly flowing streams and still have a way to deal with stalled ones.

Julian