From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:47:48 -0800 Message-ID: <457A07B4.2060303@zytor.com> References: <45744FA3.7020908@zytor.com> <45778AA3.7080709@zytor.com> <4577A84C.3010601@zytor.com> <45785697.1060001@zytor.com> <457868AA.2030605@zytor.com> <20061207193012.GA84678@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <4578722E.9030402@zytor.com> <4579611F.5010303@dawes.za.net> <45798FE2.9040502@zytor.com> <457998C8.3050601@garzik.org> <4579FABC.5070509@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Garzik , Rogan Dawes , Kernel Org Admin , Git Mailing List , Jakub Narebski Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2308/Fri Dec 8 08:10:24 2006 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsqNy-0005DQ-Vt for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:48:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761326AbWLIAsM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:48:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761327AbWLIAsM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:48:12 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:58197 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761326AbWLIAsK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 19:48:10 -0500 Received: from [10.0.6.0] (yardgnome.c2micro.com [69.104.58.50]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id kB90lpt7005909 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:47:51 -0800 To: Linus Torvalds Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's kind of silly to have people wait for 20 seconds just because a cache > expired five seconds ago. Much nicer to say "ok, we allow a certain > grace-period during which we'll do the real lookup, but to make things > _look_ really responsive, we still use the old cached value". > Yup, DNS does this, and it's a Very Good Thing.