This patch makes the default to build IPv6 into the kernel. IPv6
now has significant traction and any remaining vestiges of IPv6
not being provided parity with IPv4 should be swept away. IPv6 is now
core to the Internet and kernel.
Points on IPv6 adoption:
- Per Google statistics, IPv6 usage has reached 7% on the Internet
and continues to exhibit an exponential growth rate
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
- Just a few days ago ARIN officially depleted its IPv4 pool
- IPv6 only data centers are being successfully built
(e.g. at Facebook)
This patch changes the IPv6 Kconfig for IPV6. Default for CONFIG_IPV6
is set to "y" and the text has been updated to reflect the maturity of
IPv6.
Impact:
Under some circumstances building modules in to kernel might have a
performance advantage. In my testing, I did notice a very slight
improvement.
This will obviously increase the size of the kernel image. In my
configuration I see:
IPv6 as module:
text data bss dec hex filename
9703666 1899288 933888 12536842 bf4c0a vmlinux
IPv6 built into kernel
text data bss dec hex filename
9436490 1879600 913408 12229498 ba9b7a vmlinux
Which increases text size by ~270K (2.8% increase in size for me). If
image size is an issue, presumably for a device which does not do IP
networking (IMO we should be discouraging IPv4-only devices), IPV6 can
be disabled or still built as a module.
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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