In case someone finds it interesting, kernel bypass also exposes hardware capabilities which can be used for optimization. A recent research attempts at leveraging NICs to accelerate data serialization <a href="https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s10-raghavan.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos...</a><p>Source: <a href="https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/07/07/breakfast-of-champions-towards-zero-copy-serialization-with-nic-scatter-gather.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/07/07/breakfast-of-champion...</a>