eBPF Research Papers
When I started reading on BPF there weren’t many academic papers to describe how it worked, how it didn’t, or how it is used. There are many blog posts and informal articles out there, but it’s harder to find self-contained papers with references to older, sometimes unsuspected, related works. They have become more frequent though, so I wanted to draw up a list with one-sentence summaries for anyone looking for related works or otherwise interested.
I expect this list to only grow with time. If I want to keep things manageable, I need a way to select papers. Except I’d rather not be the one having to decide which papers are the “best papers”1. So I opted to follow the selection from CSRankings: I will only list papers from conference listed by CSRankins by default. CSRankins tends to put the bar fairly high, but I think there is at least consensus on the top conferences they selected.
I’ve sorted papers according to their type of contribution and the field or area they focus on. For example, papers improving either the JIT compilers or verifier of eBPF will have improving, jit, and verifier (see those papers).
