[tor-bugs] #5956 [Tor]: Thresholds of nodes to build circuits should be tunable and maybe consider weights too

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#5956: Thresholds of nodes to build circuits should be tunable and maybe consider
weights too
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 Reporter:  nickm                                      |          Owner:  mikeperry         
     Type:  defect                                     |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  critical                                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                                        |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  maybe-proposal tor-client MikePerry201301  |         Parent:  #5456             
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Comment(by nickm):

 Thanks, Mike!

 I've pushed a patch to make it parameterized and configurable to
 "bug5956."

 I'm fine renaming circuit_build_times_get_bw_scale to
 network_balancing_weights_get_scale_parameter or whatever if you like; if
 you make a patch, I will apply it ... but '''only if''' it includes
 Doxygen documentation for that function.  I think one reason that function
 might be misnamed is that nobody ever actually explained what it was
 supposed to do.

 I'm writing a torspec patch for this branch too.

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