Investigate KFUNC/KRETFUNC support
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Description
A new way of calling into BPF called KFUNC/KRETFUNC was added recently. We should investigate if it will lower the cost of making BPF calls on PowerPC
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by researching the existing BPF call path on PowerPC and the KFUNC/KRETFUNC implementation, then compare their call costs. Done means documenting whether this can reduce BPF call overhead and identifying the concrete work needed.
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Assessment
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100