Re: [PATCHv7 bpf-next 0/9] uprobe: uretprobe speed up

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:42:45 -0700
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another ping. It's been two weeks since Jiri posted the last revision
> that got no more feedback to be addressed and everyone seems to be
> happy with it.

Sorry, there's been a lot going on.

> 
> This is an important speed up improvement for uprobe infrastructure in
> general and for BPF ecosystem in particular. "Uprobes are slow" is one
> of the top complaints from production BPF users, and sys_uretprobe
> approach is significantly improving the situation for return uprobes
> (aka uretprobes), potentially enabling new use cases that previously
> could have been too expensive to trace in practice and reducing the
> overhead of the existing ones.
> 
> I'd appreciate the engagement from linux-trace maintainers on this
> patch set. Given it's important for BPF and that a big part of the
> patch set is BPF-based selftests, we'd also be happy to route all this
> through the bpf-next tree (which would actually make logistics for us
> much easier, but that's not the main concern). But regardless of the
> tree, it would be nice to make a decision and go forward with it.

I'll be talking with Masami about this later today.

-- Steve