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Re:SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future by diegocg on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:48PM (#19194298)
Jokes aside, I wonder how much time will pass until people start writing kernel drivers in BPF
Re:SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future by pas on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:52PM (#19194333)
XDP is sort of that for the network subsystem. (Though it doesn't allow you to implement drivers, "just" protocols.) Next step could be filesystem stuff, then libvirt drivers, etc.

But BPF is no that versatile, but at least it has a stable ABI.

Re:SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future by agumonkey on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:09PM (#19194483)
let's ask bsd folks who vetted lua