Article 6NBZP [$] Modernizing BPF for the next 10 years

[$] Modernizing BPF for the next 10 years

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BPF was firstgeneralized beyond packet filtering more than a decade ago. In that time, ithas changed a lot, becoming much more capable.Alexei Starovoitov kicked off the second day of the BPF track at the 2024Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by leading a sessiondiscussing which changes to BPF are going to come in the next ten years as itcontinues evolving. He proposed several ideas, including expanding the number ofregisters available to BPF programs, dynamic deadlock detection, and relaxingsome existing limits of the verifier.

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