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BPF Performance Tools
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BPF Performance Tools

by Brendan Gregg
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
880 pages
28h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Foreword

Programmers sometimes say that they “cook a patch” rather than “implement a patch”. I’ve been fascinated with programming since my school years. To produce good code the programmer needs to pick the best “ingredients”. While different programming languages offer various building blocks, “ingredients”, when it comes to Linux kernel programming, there is nothing but the kernel itself.

In 2012 I had to add a set of kernel features, but the “ingredients” I needed did not then exist. I could have started writing building blocks inside the kernel. They would be ready to use years later. Instead, I decided to create a “universal ingredient” that when in the hands of a skilled programmer could be both a layer 2 networking bridge and a layer ...

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