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[$] Better linked-list traversal in BPF
Friday March 8, 2024. 03:34 PM , from LWN.net
Before loading a BPF program, the kernel must verify that the program is
safe to run; among other things, that verification includes ensuring that the program will terminate within a bounded time. That requirement has long made writing loops in BPF a challenging task. The situation has improved over the years for some types of loops, but others — including linked-list traversal — are still awkward in BPF programs. A new set of BPF primitives aims to make life easier for this use case through the installation of what can be seen as a sort of circuit breaker.
https://lwn.net/Articles/964381/
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