__u32 choose_local_fallback_tries;
        /* choose attempts before giving up */ 
        __u32 choose_total_tries;
-       /* attempt chooseleaf inner descent once; on failure retry outer descent */
+       /* attempt chooseleaf inner descent once for firstn mode; on
+        * reject retry outer descent.  Note that this does *not*
+        * apply to a collision: in that case we will retry as we used
+        * to. */
        __u32 chooseleaf_descend_once;
 };
 
 
                               const __u32 *weight, int weight_max,
                               int x, int numrep, int type,
                               int *out, int outpos,
+                              unsigned int attempts,
+                              unsigned int recurse_attempts,
                               int recurse_to_leaf,
                               int descend_once, int *out2)
 {
                                                         weight, weight_max,
                                                         x, outpos+1, 0,
                                                         out2, outpos,
+                                                        recurse_attempts, 0,
                                                         0,
                                                         map->chooseleaf_descend_once,
                                                         NULL) <= outpos)
                                                 flocal <= in->size + map->choose_local_fallback_tries)
                                                /* exhaustive bucket search */
                                                retry_bucket = 1;
-                                       else if (ftotal <= map->choose_total_tries)
+                                       else if (ftotal <= attempts)
                                                /* then retry descent */
                                                retry_descent = 1;
                                        else
        __u32 step;
        int i, j;
        int numrep;
-       int choose_leaf_tries = 1;
+       int choose_tries = map->choose_total_tries;
+       int choose_leaf_tries = 0;
        const int descend_once = 0;
 
        if ((__u32)ruleno >= map->max_rules) {
                                                x, numrep,
                                                curstep->arg2,
                                                o+osize, j,
+                                               choose_tries,
+                                               choose_leaf_tries ? choose_leaf_tries : choose_tries,
                                                recurse_to_leaf,
                                                descend_once, c+osize);
                                } else {
                                                x, numrep, numrep,
                                                curstep->arg2,
                                                o+osize, j,
-                                               map->choose_total_tries,
-                                               choose_leaf_tries,
+                                               choose_tries,
+                                               choose_leaf_tries ? choose_leaf_tries : 1,
                                                recurse_to_leaf,
                                                c+osize,
                                                0);