In 2021, Microsoft open sourced their eBPF-for-Windows project. They rely on existing open-source projects to JIT-compile, interpret, and verify BPF programs. Interestingly, PREVAIL, the BPF verifier they use, originated from peer-reviewed academic work and contrasts significantly with the Linux verifier.| π · chaingo
Tomorrow, Yoann Ghigoff et al. will present their paper BMC: Accelerating Memcached using Safe In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing at NSDI 2021. In this paper, the authors propose to speed up Memcached using eBPF by implementing a transparent, first-level cache at the XDP hook. It’s not everyday we see BPF being used on application protocols!| π · chaingo
This post summarizes the hXDP paper from OSDI 2020. The hXDP paper discusses the execution of XDP eBPF programs on FPGA-powered NICs.| pchaigno
