BPF Performance Tools

Chapter 4. BCC

The BPF Compiler Collection (BCC; sometimes written as lowercase bcc after the project and package names) is an open source project that contains a compiler framework and libraries for building BPF software. It is the main front-end project for BPF, supported by the BPF developers, and is usually where the latest kernel tracing BPF additions are first used. BCC also contains more than 70 ready-to-run BPF performance analysis and troubleshooting tools, many of which are covered in this book.

BCC was created by Brenden Blanco in April 2015. Encouraged by Alexei Starovoitov, I joined the project in 2015 and became a major contributor of performance tools, documentation, and testing. There are now numerous contributors, and BCC is ...