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ipv6: Disable flowlabel state ranges by default
authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:52:13 +0000 (16:52 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 1 Aug 2015 00:07:11 +0000 (17:07 -0700)
commitbe26849bfb6fcee4123c687fc39bd6da1b3be328
tree50ce755fe9e63af98db5ed5c33a94346537aa5fd
parent42240901f7c438636715b9cb6ed93f4441ffc091
ipv6: Disable flowlabel state ranges by default

Per RFC6437 stateful flow labels (e.g. labels set by flow label manager)
cannot "disturb" nodes taking part in stateless flow labels. While the
ranges only reduce the flow label entropy by one bit, it is conceivable
that this might bias the algorithm on some routers causing a load
imbalance. For best results on the Internet we really need the full
20 bits.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/af_inet6.c