Tag: eBPF
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XDP CPUMap
An update on XDP and CPUMap. http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2017_files/XDP_devel_update_NetConf2017_Seoul.pdf
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Routing and Switching in XDP
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/88 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/90 Updated patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/4/192 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/4/193
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Tracing Packets Through the Kernel
https://blog.yadutaf.fr/2017/07/28/tracing-a-packet-journey-using-linux-tracepoints-perf-ebpf/ Very interesting. The key is that eBPF programs can be attached to tracepoints.
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eBPF and XDP Stuff
Worked example of DDOS protection using XDP. It also has this interesting slide: BPF and XDP Reference Guide eBPF, part 1: Past, Present, and Future
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eBPF Longest Prefix Match Maps
Coming soon to a 4.11 kernel near you, eBPF maps that can do longest prefix matches for things like IP routing. Awesome.
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eBPF Map Size Limits
Recently, I’ve done some work with eBPF and specifically the in-kernel maps that are manipulated and shared by both kernel and user space code. When doing this I ran into permission errors when installing large maps. It took a little while to figure out that the cause of this was the root user’s locked memory…