• [$] A proposal for shared memory in BPF programs

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wed Feb 21 15:15:05 2024
    [$] A proposal for shared memory in BPF programs

    Date:
    Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:03:39 +0000

    Description:
    Alexei Starovoitov introduced a patch series for the Linux kernel on February 6 to add bpf_arena , a new type
    of shared memory between BPF programs and user space.
    Starovitov expects arenas to be useful both for bidirectional communication between user space and BPF programs, and for use as an additional heap for BPF programs. This will likely be useful to BPF programs that implement
    complex data structures directly, instead of relying on the kernel to supply them.
    Starovoitov cited Google's ghOSt project
    as an example and inspiration for the work.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/961941/


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