eBPF super powers on arm64
Channel: Southern California Linux Expo
Date: 2018-03-08

Talk by Joel Fernandes

eBPF has gained popularity in low overhead tracing and data aggregation used to understand inner workings of the Linux kernel. The bcc tools based on eBPF work only on x86 machines where they are running locally (host and target are the same). This requires llvm libraries, Python and the kernel sources all installed on the local machine, before eBPF can even work. This installation is easy and readily available as packages on x86 however it is painful to do for arm64. Joel addresses these challenges with a novel solution with a new tool (bpfd) he created to remotely use eBPF.

More info at: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x/presentations/ebpf-super-powers-arm64