[infinispan-dev] server hinting improvement

[Manik Surtani]

On 26 Nov 2010, at 11:49, Mircea Markus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just had a chat with Bela on the IRC related to server hinting. Following improvement can be implemented within infinispan: 
> {A,B,C} in NYC and {X,Y,Z} in SFO. K hashes to A and topology aware CH sets X as backup. Now if Y is asked for K, it would go to A - not optimal as the info is already on its  site within X.The  optimisation would be to go to X for such a call, and avoid a inter-sites RPC.

No, if Y asked for K the request would go to A and X and the first response (most likely from X) will be used.

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