Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Tue, 15 July 2008, Lea Wiemann wrote:
>> # Transient cache entries (like get_sha1('HEAD')) are automatically
>> # invalidated when an mtime [...] changes.
>
> Nice idea... for project pages. I'm not so sure about projects_list
> page, if wouldn't be better to have expire time for *this* page. You
> would have/have to stat a lot of files/directories to detect changes.
It doesn't seem to be too much of a performance issue (it takes ~500ms
to generate the project list on kernel.org), and project lists aren't
requested often enough to be a good optimization target.
I'll see how it performs when the OS's page cache is cold though; if
it's too slow then I might revisit the issue.
> BTW. some summary of the above should be IMHO in the commit message.
*nods*
> In this case you don't have any basis to set expires for transient views;
> on the other hand situation doesn't differ much from serving static
> files (wrt. cache validation) so perhaps no expires but no "no-cache"
> would be a good solution.
Gitweb provides a view on a live repository, so I don't think caching is
usually what you want (e.g. static pages really tend to change much less
frequently). (And yes, my Opera *does* seem to cache those pages unless
you add no-cache.)
Really, I don't think the performance penalty of revalidation will be
significant enough to justify risking stale data. IOW, it's pretty
fast. Check out repo.or.cz's performance (and repo.or.cz doesn't even
use Last-Modified).
> P.S. is there any cache evision mechanism (to limit cache size)
> in gitweb cache, or just those implemented by caching backend?
For the $cache, it's in the caching backend, for the $large_cache, there
is no mechanism, so you need to clean up yourself. See the patch. ;-)
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