alt Hacker NewsIt’s not about battle testing but that eBPF is has specific restrictions that a) won’t lock up your kernel b) won’t cause a security exploit by being loaded. Now Spectre throws a wrench in things, but the framing is weird; why compare it to eBPF vs just making a mechanism to load kernel modules written in Rust.
> why compare it to eBPF vs just making a mechanism to load kernel modules written in Rust.
Because it's not just a mechanism to load kernel modules in Rust, it's specifically a mechanism to load them in the same places that ebpf programs are loadable, using the existing kernel machinery for executing ebpf programs, and with some helpers to interface with existing epbf programs.