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ux: Add a check for older kernels #2075

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javierhonduco opened this issue Sep 28, 2023 · 0 comments
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ux: Add a check for older kernels #2075

javierhonduco opened this issue Sep 28, 2023 · 0 comments
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area/quailty-assurance Quality matters testing Something about testing ux Something to do with user experience

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Add a check for older, unsupported kernels. I believe the minimum we support is 5.3 (as it introduced bounded loops) + BTF. More context in this comment. For context, we have experimented with supporting older kernels (~4.20) but unrolling the loops resulted in significantly more code that will result in more tail calls, which aren't free. The current tradeoff we make here is only supporting "newer" (~4 years old) kernels but having a better performance without having to maintain tests and other infra for the two variants.

@javierhonduco javierhonduco added the ux Something to do with user experience label Sep 28, 2023
@kakkoyun kakkoyun added area/quailty-assurance Quality matters testing Something about testing ux Something to do with user experience and removed ux Something to do with user experience labels Feb 22, 2024
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