Liz Rice on Programming the Linux Kernel with eBPF, Cilium and Service Meshes
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XDP: A Type of EBPF Program That You Can Run on the Network
There's a huge range of places that you can hook your BPF programs to. There are events like network events. So the arrival of a network packet, that kind of takes me to a thing called XTP which I think is just brilliant. The other thing of XDP was, well, wouldn't it be cool if we didn't even have to get that packet as far as the kernel? What if the network interface card could handle it for us? so XDP is a type of EBPF program that you can run on the network.
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