From d91ae2094fa87094430392acd9fd54b4132ba9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 13:17:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] configure: disable arc4random on Linux In glibc 2.36 was added the arc4random family of functions. However, unlike on other supported systems, it is not a user-space PRNG implementation. It just wraps the getrandom() system call with no buffering, which causes a performance loss on NTP servers due to the function being called twice for each response to add randomness to the RX and TX timestamp below the clock precision. Don't check for arc4random on Linux to keep using the buffered getrandom(). --- configure | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index ed230f3..fd777c8 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ try_lockmem=0 feat_asyncdns=1 feat_forcednsretry=1 try_clock_gettime=1 +try_arc4random=1 try_recvmmsg=1 feat_timestamping=1 try_timestamping=0 @@ -421,6 +422,7 @@ case $OPERATINGSYSTEM in try_setsched=1 try_lockmem=1 try_phc=1 + try_arc4random=0 add_def LINUX echo "Configuring for " $SYSTEM ;; @@ -702,8 +704,10 @@ then use_pthread=1 fi -if test_code 'arc4random_buf()' 'stdlib.h' '' '' \ - 'arc4random_buf((void *)1, 1);'; then +if [ $try_arc4random = "1" ] && \ + test_code 'arc4random_buf()' 'stdlib.h' '' '' \ + 'arc4random_buf((void *)1, 1);' +then add_def HAVE_ARC4RANDOM else if test_code 'getrandom()' 'stdlib.h sys/random.h' '' '' \