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Re: ioctl() on socket fd's take 3 seconds on 1.7.7
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Nov 22 21:29, Jason Curl wrote:
> > The actual delays are caused by SendARP() called from get_xp_ifs().
> > Interestingly enough, it isn't always slow, only sometimes.
> > [...]
>
> First of all, thanks for looking deeper into this.
Thanks for taking notice for my initial problem.
> This autoconfig address is returned by GetAdapterAddresses so it has
> been configured at one point, even if the interface is not visible.
>
> Ok, so SendARP is kind of a problematic call. As you can see from the
> source code, it's only called to set the IFF_NOARP flag. Probably
> that's a bit over the top. What about just disabling this code?
I'll try this out on my next opportunity. I personally have no need for
IFF_NOARP.
Jason.
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