[$] Lua in the kernel?

BPF is, of course, the language used fornetwork (and other) customization in the Linux kernel, but some people have been using the Lua language for the networking side of thatequation. Two developers from Ring-0Networks, Lourival Vieira Neto and Victor Nogueira, came to the virtualNetdev 0x14 topresentthat work. It consists of a framework to allow the injection of Lua scriptsinto the running kernel as well as two projects aimed at routers, oneof which is deployed on 20 million devices.