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Took me a while to find that eBPF was extended/enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter. Wikipedia was no help.
by mjcohen 8y ago
Took me a while to find that eBPF was extended/enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter. Wikipedia was no help.
- aargh_aargh 8y agoWhile that's the original meaning of the acronym, it was generalized into a virtual machine, so it has come far from being able to just filter packets. More details under "BPF kernel internals" here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/filter.txt https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
- blunte 8y agoJust one place early on this page using the full words instead of the acronym would have done the job. Such a small change would make such an immense difference for outsiders.