Navigation
Search
|
[$] The BPF-programmable network device
Monday November 6, 2023. 05:23 PM , from LWN.net
Containers and virtual machines on Linux communicate with the world via
virtual network devices. This arrangement makes the full power of the Linux networking stack available, but it imposes the full overhead of that stack as well. Often, the routing of this networking traffic can be handled with relatively simple logic; the BPF-programmable network device, which was merged for the 6.7 kernel release, makes it possible to avoid expensive network processing, in at least some cases.
https://lwn.net/Articles/949960/
|
25 sources
Current Date
May, Mon 13 - 00:45 CEST
|