Research: eBPF Not Always a ‘Silver Bullet’ for Network Apps

A research paper in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Networking cast doubt on the performance superiority of eBPF, at least in terms of accelerating network-based workloads.

In many cases, eBPF brings no considerable performance benefit, and sometimes can even slow an application, pointed out four researchers in the paper, “Demystifying Performance of eBPF Network Applications,”

“In reality many networked applications cannot benefit from eBPF, and worse the use of eBPF can limit how applications are deployed,” wrote…