[Lpc-announce] BPF Microconference Accepted into 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference

We are pleased to announce that the BPF Microconference has been
accepted into the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference!

BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) [1] is one of the fastest emerging
technologies of the Linux kernel and plays a major role in networking
(XDP (eXpress Data Path) [2], tc/BPF [3], etc.), tracing (kprobes [4],
uprobes [5], tracepoints [6]), and security (seccomp [7], landlock [8])
thanks to its versatility and efficiency.

BPF has seen a lot of progress since last year's Plumbers conference
and many of the discussed BPF tracing Microconference improvements have
been tackled since then such as the introduction of BPF type format
(BTF) [9] to name one. This year's BPF Microconference event focuses on
the core BPF infrastructure as well as its subsystems, therefore topics
proposed for this year's event include improving verifier scalability,
next steps on BPF type format, dynamic tracing without on the fly
compilation, string and loop support, reuse of host JITs for offloads,
LRU heuristics and timers, syscall interception, microkernels, and many
more.

LPC [10] will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from
Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November 15.


[1] http://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/
[2] http://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/#xdp
[3] http://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/#tc-traffic-co...
[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kprobes.txt
[5] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/uprobetrac...
[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/683504/
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp
[8] https://lwn.net/Articles/698226/
[9] https://lwn.net/Articles/752047/
[10] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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