There is work going on upstream to allow bypassing the entire network stack in the kernel using eBPF. Kernel bypass techniques though have been the gold standa

There is work going on upstream to allow bypassing the entire network stack in the kernel using eBPF. Kernel bypass techniques though have been the gold standard in performance for quite a while, but they don't work well for container networking, so kernel networking is starting to become more relevant to people who care about performance.