On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 04:17:32PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 12:52:08 -0800 > Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It's a user space job. > > BTW, I asked around at DevConf.cz, and nobody I talked with (besides > Arnaldo), have used eBPF. The "path to hello world" is quite high. This > interface is extremely simple to use, and one doesn't need to install > LLVM or other tools to interface with it. > > I used the analogy, that eBPF is like C, and this is like Bash. One is > much easier to get "Hello World!" out than the other. > > So personally, this is something I know I would use (note, I have > never used eBPF either). But if I'm the only one to use this > interface then I'll stop here (and not bother with the function graph > return interface). If others think this would be helpful, I would ask > them to speak up now. I'm not arguing against the patches. I know that there are folks out there who like to use cat/echo interfaces. I'm only happy that the whole thing has its own kconfig that we can keep off in fb kernels to reduce maintenance/support burden. Just like we do for all sorts of other kernel features. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
