RedisCluster initialization is too slow, can we skip it or optimize it?

[willianmrs]

Version: 5.0.1

Platform: Python 3.8, Ubuntu 22.04

Description:

Hello guys, I'm upgrading the library from a very old version, from redis-py-cluster. I notice that when creating the client, for instance:

RedisCluster(
        host=host_configuration["host"],
        port=int(host_configuration["port"]),
        decode_responses=True,
        skip_full_coverage_check=True,
        socket_timeout=timeout,
        socket_connect_timeout=timeout,
        username=host_configuration.get("user"),
        password=host_configuration.get("pass")
    )

the initialization is taking too long because it sends a command INFO to check if the cluster is enabled, references:

  # Make sure cluster mode is enabled on this node
  if bool(r.info().get("cluster_enabled")) is False:
      raise RedisClusterException(
          "Cluster mode is not enabled on this node"
      )
  cluster_slots = str_if_bytes(r.execute_command("CLUSTER SLOTS"))
  startup_nodes_reachable = True

Since my cluster is big, this command is taking too long, that is not a big issue, because it runs only in the initialization, but the problem is that my requests are very fast, we use a pipeline and get so the majority of requests are below 5ms and I wanna configure a timeout for something like 100ms or even 50ms, but since the timeout parameter is configured only in the initialization of the cluster and it is taking a few seconds to initialize, I need to inform a bigger timeout on the constructor.

Saying all that, I have two questions, (1) is it possible to change the timeout after creating the client? If not, we can change the way it validates if the cluster is enabled to a faster command or even skip this validation?