Passing the protocol to socket() is redundant as it will be specified again in
bind(). Dropping the redundancy reduces the cost of bind() from ~30ms to ~0ms.
For details see [0].
networkd in a container (i.e., with next to no network latency) can now
negotiate a DHCP lease in 0.7 - 5 ms.
Thanks to Kay for help with debugging and to Daniel Borkmann for the pointer
to fix the problem.
[0]: <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=
902fefb82ef72a50c78cb4a20cc954b037a98d1c>
assert(index > 0);
assert(link);
- s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_DGRAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC | SOCK_NONBLOCK,
- htons(ETH_P_IP));
+ s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_DGRAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC | SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0);
if (s < 0)
return -errno;