I was hoping that eBPF would be a renaissance of exokernel ideas. Part of the whole exokernel shtick was user programmable virtual machines on user/kernel boundary to generate new specialized kernel interfaces for the task at hand. They hoped to lower the barrier for crafting those new interfaces that a lot of experimentation would happen.
I was hoping that eBPF would be a renaissance of exokernel ideas. Part of the whole exokernel shtick was user programmable virtual machines on user/kernel boundary to generate new specialized kernel interfaces for the task at hand. They hoped to lower the barrier for crafting those new interfaces that a lot of experimentation would happen.