Recently at I gave a short talk titled "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk.
RFC8482 - Saying goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special.
SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future
Proper TCP socket splicing reduces the load on userspace processes and enables more efficient data forwarding. We realized that Linux Kernel's SOCKMAP infrastructure can be reused for this purpose.
io_submit: The epoll alternative you've never heard about
The Linux AIO is designed for, well, Asynchronous disk IO! Disk files are not the same thing as network sockets! Is it even possible to use the Linux AIO API with network sockets in the first place? The answer turns out to be a strong YES!
Cada 7.8μs, a la memoria de su ordenador le entra hipo
Durante mi reciente visita al Computer History Museum (Museo de historia de los ordenadores) en Mountain View, me detuve a contemplar una antigua memoria de núcleos magnéticos.