Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/5] bpf: BPF specific memory allocator.

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 11:05:25AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > For example, I assume that a BPF program
> > has a fairly tight limit on how much memory it can cause to be allocated.
> > Right?
> 
> No. It's constrained by memcg limits only. It can allocate gigabytes.

I'm confused.  A BPF program is limited to executing 4096 insns and
using a maximum of 512 bytes of stack space, but it can allocate an
unlimited amount of heap?  That seems wrong.



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