[tor-bugs] #1819 [Tor Relay]: Implement new metric on bidirectional use of connections

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#1819: Implement new metric on bidirectional use of connections
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 Reporter:  karsten      |       Owner:  karsten 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
Component:  Tor Relay    |     Version:          
 Keywords:               |      Parent:          
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Changes (by karsten):

  * status:  needs_review => assigned


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:3 nickm]:
 > The unit tests in #1825 do indeed look good, and the refactoring in
 question will take care of the "write it to disk then read it to disk even
 if you only wanted it in a string" issue.

 Okay, I added unit tests in branch bidistats2. No need to review right
 now, as we're waiting for an or-dev answer before merging anyway.

 > I'll ask about the motivation on or-dev.  Without knowing that, I can't
 really answer whether we ''should'' distinguish between relay and client
 connections, since I'm not sure what we're accomplishing as it is.
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 > But to tell the connections apart, see current code and discussions for
 bug #1751 ; there is some (imperfect) code to do this already, and if the
 code improves, it should still present a similar interface.

 I'll wait for the or-dev reply first before looking closer at this.

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