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Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform by suthakamal on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:18PM (#25376604)
hadn't thought of this like DTrace. Thx for that!
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Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform by SEJeff on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:40PM (#25377599)
Anytime! eBPF is Linux’s equivalent of DTrace
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Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform by cyphar on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:06PM (#25380017)
Strictly speaking, one of the uses of eBPF is a DTrace-like tracing tool but it's also used in quite a few other places (for instance it's also used for devices cgroup policy in cgroupv2).
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Re:New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform by SEJeff on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:15PM (#25380661)
And filtering syscalls for seccomp or literally packet filtering. I believe Jens Axboe and team were looking at using eBPF for some of the low level IO subsystems.

But I was explaining the most common and obvious (for a user) use of eBPF.

They should just look at the io visor project to see some of the stuff that can be done with it (disclaimer, I work with one of the io visor maintainers)

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