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kbumsik on Sept 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC eBPF for Linux port has landed

I mean, their runtime models might share similarities but eBPF is not meant to be a general purpose machine, it is kinda a kernel add-on for programmable tracing.

cthalupa on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

>it is kinda a kernel add-on for programmable tracing.

Well, that's the thing I personally mostly use it for via bpftrace and bcc, but that's not the only thing. It's being used for a lot of networking related things too. XDP, CloudFlare uses it for a lot of their DDoS mitigation, etc.

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