[infinispan-dev] DIST.retrieveFromRemoteSource

[Mircea Markus]

>> I'd like to have Dan's input on this as well first, as he has worked with
>> remote gets and I still don't know why null results are not considered valid
>> :)
> 
> Pre-5.0 during state transfer an owner could return null to mean "I'm
> not sure", so the caller would ignore it unless every target returned
> null.
> That's no longer necessary, but it wasn't broken so I didn't fix it...

Thinking some more about this, it actually has an performance impact: if the entry does not exist then there's no point in waiting for all replies, but juts for the first one.