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Re:eBPF on Windows by sanxiyn on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:06PM (#27111997)
Re: termination, can't you use Ethereum gas style termination? I always found termination verification strange, because "gas" is usually more practical alternative.
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Re:eBPF on Windows by MarkSweep on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:30PM (#27113089)
The ZFS file system supports running Lua programs in Kernel mode. It supports setting a limit on the number of instructions run and the amount of memory used:

https://www.delphix.com/blog/delphix-engineering/zfs-channel...

So it’s been done before. I think traditional BPF programs were really short and ran in performance critical contexts. Disallowing backwards branches and limiting size was preferred to slowing down these code paths with instruction counting.

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Re:eBPF on Windows by MichaelMoser123 on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:45PM (#27113651)
How would you maintain the gas cout? Per instruction or per basic block?
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