From: Harald Welte <lafo...@gnumonks.org> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:37:30 +0100
> I was speaking of actual *users* as in indiiduals running their own > systems, companies running their own servers/datacenter. The fact that > some ISP (or its supplier) decisdes that one of my IP packets is routed > via a smartnic with XDP offloading somewhere is great, but still doesn't > turn me into a "user" of that technology. Not in my linke of thinking, > at least. I am sorry that our opinions differ. I must consider all users of Linux both direct and indirect, to determine impact and where resources and efforts should be allocated. >> And by in large, for system tracing and analysis eBPF is basically >> a hard requirement for people doing anything serious these days. > > That's great, but misses the point. I was referring to usage in the > context of the kernel network stack. Sorry for not being explicit > enough. And that misses the point entirely. Which is that eBPF is more than just networking, so it is missing that this technology is not just networking specific but a kernel wide one that is being adopted in every nook and cranny of the kernel. > Sure, one data center / hosting / "cloud" provider can quickly roll out > a change in their network. But I'm referring to significant, > (Linux-)industry-wide adoption. Hehe, I guess whatever definition works for the position you are trying to take. :-)
