[BUG] 3006.8 master take extra 4 seconds to finish test.ping

[tjyang]

Description
I downgraded to 3006.8(salt01) from 3007 and notice a simple test.ping take extra 4 seconds compared to 3007 master(rock01).

Please label it as Enhancement.

Setup
time sudo salt -N testsalt test.ping

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

• [ x] on-prem machine
• [x ] VM (Virtualbox, KVM, etc. please specify)
• VM running on a cloud service, please be explicit and add details
• container (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, etc. please specify)
• or a combination, please be explicit
• jails if it is FreeBSD
• classic packaging
• [ x] onedir packaging
• [ x] used bootstrap to install

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

[me@salt01 ~]$ time sudo salt -N testsalt test.ping # 15 minions in testsalt nodegroup.

real 0m5.686s
user 0m0.648s
sys 0m0.057s
[me@salt01 ~]$ time sudo salt * test.ping

Expected behavior
rock01 and salt01 masters are on same subnet.
[me@rock01 ~]$ time sudo salt -N testsalt test.ping # same 15 minions in rocky01

real 0m1.033s
user 0m0.017s
sys 0m0.009s
[me@rock01 ~]$

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Versions Report

salt --versions-report

(Provided by running salt --versions-report. Please also mention any differences in master/minion versions.)

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.8

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.14 (main, Apr  3 2024, 21:30:09) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.14.6
      cherrypy: unknown
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.3
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.0.2
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 22.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.4.8
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 23.2.0
        relenv: 0.16.0
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.2.4
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

System Versions:
          dist: rocky 8.9 Green Obsidian
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8_9.x86_64
        system: Linux
       version: Rocky Linux 8.9 Green Obsidian

Additional context
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[tjyang]

Following test.ping time is from 3007.1 master and minions. lower than 1 second.
But this bug: #66519 is stopping it as production ready.

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Summary
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# of minions targeted: 15
# of minions returned: 15
# of minions that did not return: 0
# of minions with errors: 0
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real    0m0.967s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.010s