Adding eBPF profiler support

[anthonyalayo]

Hi there,

I was reading the PR here: #69

And i was wondering what is the process for "adding multiple profilers"?

If I knew some place to start, I could give adding eBPF a shot.

Thanks in advance,
Anthony

[spiermar]

Hi @anthonyalayo! I'm finally returning to the project. The challenge with BPF is the different output formats. Depending on what frontend you are using, and script, output will be completely different. Long time ago, when we were discussing this issue, the consensus was to implement a nflxprofile (or other know format) output option on BPF, so it could be loaded directly or converted prior to loading.
A few bcc tools output in folded format already, which is not useful for flamescope, since it doesn't contain a time dimension.
I'll close this for now, since it has been a long time, but if you're still interested in pursuing this (or have already developed something), please reopen.