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Brendan Gregg is the author of eBPF, and he writes on his blog. It is fair to assume a basic knowledge of his works when reading his website.

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Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “author“, but BPF was invented by Steven McCanne, and Van Jacobson in 1992[0], and tweaked over the years by various developers and operating systems. It looks[1] like the Linux eBPF work was initiated by Alexei Starovoitov, and came to be exposed to users c. 2014.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/

Brendan Gregg is the author of most of the utilities, not bpf/ebpf itself. You can find a non-exhaustive list here: http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html

I get that, and appreciate he’s productive and sharing his skill. I wasn’t sure though if the long history of other people’s hard work wasn’t being swept up in appreciation for ‘brendangregg

Thanks; I also summarize the history of eBPF in my BPF Performance Tools book (which I had checked by Alexei & Dan) and list the main contributors in the Acknowledgements page, as well as include them in talks (e.g. https://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/bpf-internals-ebpf/1...). I do try hard to thank all involved. :-)

Modern BPF (eBPF) was created by Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann, who are still maintainers but are joined by over a hundred contributors. I've spent most of my time contributing to the observability frontends, bcc and bpftrace. Apart from the people, the major companies contributing include Facebook and Isovalent; Microsoft are becoming its own major contributor to its own Windows implementation.

>Microsoft are becoming its own major contributor to its own Windows implementation.

Wait, what now !?

After checking : he wasn't joking[0]. Good job MS.

[0]:https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows

I'm sorry, this indeed isn't correct. I cannot modify my comment for some reason now.

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