Technologies such as DPDK are designed to get the kernel out of the way. For some applications it has no reason to play a part once the system has booted, it's

Technologies such as DPDK are designed to get the kernel out of the way. For some applications it has no reason to play a part once the system has booted, it's just an overhead. For what you're doing I recall reading about IncludeOS[1] which seems to have similar goals [1] https://www.includeos.org https://www.includeos.org