I recently got acquainted with eBPF as the enabling technology for PLUMgrid’s distributed, programmable data-plane. While working on the product, perhaps due to my academic mindset,  my mind got piqued…

Stack trace support by Linux eBPF will make many new and awesome things possible, however, it didn't make it into the just-released Linux 4.4, which added other eBPF features. Envisaging some time on…

After a successful and exciting OPNFV Summit last week, you can learn more about IO Visor at the 2nd P4 Workshop by Stanford/ONRC on Wednesday, November 18th. At 3:00pm I'll discussing how IO Visor and…

Continuing from where I left before, in this post we would see some of the major changes in BPF that have happened recently – how it is evolving to be a very…

Recent post by Brendan Gregg inspired me to write my own blog post about my findings of how Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) evolved, it’s interesting history and the immense powers…

First off: welcome to the IO Visor Project! We are excited for the birth of this community and thrilled about the future that lays ahead of us all. It has…

IO Visor Project is an IO engine with set of development tools that resides between the Linux OS and hardware, along with a set of development tools. It is an…

In recent years, with the advent of virtualization, private and public clouds, the nature of application development and deployment has changed significantly. The demands on today's businesses require applications to…

Firewalls as intermediary networking devices have played an important role in protecting a company or organization's internal servers and hosts, but with networking functionality virtualized (NFV), more and more company…

Immersed in the technology world, we tend to think of networking as linking machines, especially computers, to operate interactively. Before there were computers though, we might have said that networking…