On: Cilium 1.0: Bringing the BPF Revolution to Kuberne...

[jitl]

My first thought is that it’s “Berkeley Packer Filter”, see here for some context on what else it’s used for: http://blog.memsql.com/bpf-linux-performance/

[eatonphil → jitl]

I believe it started out as an extension of BPF. The real term they mean to use (and most people mean to use, I think) is eBPF. Calling it eBPF makes a whole lot more sense to me because it's evolved a lot since it was just doing packet filtering. Also, it's Linux-only so again differentiating eBPF from BPF (which is not Linux-only) makes sense to me. But I didn't write the post.

[kyrra → jitl]

I believe the proof of concept for the Spectre attack used the Linux eBPF JIT.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...

[stuartaxelowen → jitl]

Or Band Pass Filter :P