diff --git a/gerrit_util.py b/gerrit_util.py
index a8a1c3bd58..fe296d3f89 100644
--- a/gerrit_util.py
+++ b/gerrit_util.py
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ else:
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger()
 # With a starting sleep time of 1.5 seconds, 2^n exponential backoff, and seven
 # total tries, the sleep time between the first and last tries will be 94.5 sec.
-# TODO(crbug.com/881860): Lower this when crbug.com/877717 is fixed.
-TRY_LIMIT = 7
+TRY_LIMIT = 3
 
 
 # Controls the transport protocol used to communicate with Gerrit.
@@ -453,16 +452,6 @@ def ReadHttpResponse(conn, accept_statuses=frozenset([200])):
                 conn.req_host, conn.req_params['method'],
                 conn.req_params['uri'],
                 http_version, http_version, response.status, response.reason)
-    if response.status == 404:
-      # TODO(crbug/881860): remove this hack.
-      # HACK: try different Gerrit mirror as a workaround for potentially
-      # out-of-date mirror hit through default routing.
-      if conn.req_host == 'chromium-review.googlesource.com':
-        conn.req_params['uri'] = _UseGerritMirror(
-            conn.req_params['uri'], 'chromium-review.googlesource.com')
-        # And don't increase sleep_time in this case, since we suspect we've
-        # just asked wrong git mirror before.
-        sleep_time /= 2.0
 
     if TRY_LIMIT - idx > 1:
       LOGGER.info('Will retry in %d seconds (%d more times)...',
@@ -1007,31 +996,3 @@ def ChangeIdentifier(project, change_number):
   """
   assert int(change_number)
   return '%s~%s' % (urllib.quote(project, safe=''), change_number)
-
-
-# TODO(crbug/881860): remove this hack.
-_GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES = ['us1', 'us2', 'us3', 'eu1']
-assert all(3 == len(p) for p in _GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES)
-
-
-def _UseGerritMirror(url, host):
-  """Returns a new URL which uses randomly selected mirror for a Gerrit host.
-
-  The URL's host should be for a given host or a result of prior call to this
-  function.
-
-  Assumes that the URL has a single occurence of the host substring.
-  """
-  assert host in url
-  suffix = '-mirror-' + host
-  prefixes = set(_GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES)
-  prefix_len = len(_GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES[0])
-  st = url.find(suffix)
-  if st == -1:
-    actual_host = host
-  else:
-    # Already uses some mirror.
-    assert st >= prefix_len, (url, host, st, prefix_len)
-    prefixes.remove(url[st-prefix_len:st])
-    actual_host = url[st-prefix_len:st+len(suffix)]
-  return url.replace(actual_host, random.choice(list(prefixes)) + suffix)
diff --git a/tests/git_cl_test.py b/tests/git_cl_test.py
index b115a9fddf..6668b997a0 100755
--- a/tests/git_cl_test.py
+++ b/tests/git_cl_test.py
@@ -421,24 +421,6 @@ class TestGitClBasic(unittest.TestCase):
         'Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/branch@{#2}\n'
         'Cr-Branched-From: somehash-refs/heads/master@{#12}')
 
-  def test_gerrit_mirror_hack(self):
-    cr = 'chromium-review.googlesource.com'
-    url0 = 'https://%s/a/changes/x?a=b' % cr
-    origMirrors = git_cl.gerrit_util._GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES
-    try:
-      git_cl.gerrit_util._GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES = ['us1', 'us2']
-      url1 = git_cl.gerrit_util._UseGerritMirror(url0, cr)
-      url2 = git_cl.gerrit_util._UseGerritMirror(url1, cr)
-      url3 = git_cl.gerrit_util._UseGerritMirror(url2, cr)
-
-      self.assertNotEqual(url1, url2)
-      self.assertEqual(sorted((url1, url2)), [
-        'https://us1-mirror-chromium-review.googlesource.com/a/changes/x?a=b',
-        'https://us2-mirror-chromium-review.googlesource.com/a/changes/x?a=b'])
-      self.assertEqual(url1, url3)
-    finally:
-      git_cl.gerrit_util._GERRIT_MIRROR_PREFIXES = origMirrors
-
   def test_valid_accounts(self):
     mock_per_account = {
       'u1': None,  # 404, doesn't exist.