* Add hugepages monitoring support
    * Fix incorrect CPU usage metrics with 4.7 kernel
    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))
    * [Huge pages](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt) can now be used with empty dir volume plugin.

- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably reducing `kube-apiserver` restart times under certain conditions. ([#93861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93861), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  
  Enabling seccomp for your workload can have a negative performance impact depending on the kernel and container runtime version in use.
  

* Get windows kernel version directly from registry rather than windows.getVersion(). ([#58498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

    * Add hugepages monitoring support
    * Fix incorrect CPU usage metrics with 4.7 kernel
    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))
    * [Huge pages](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt) can now be used with empty dir volume plugin.

- Handle Windows named pipes in host mounts. ([#69484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69484), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
- Fixed inconsistency in windows kernel proxy when updating HNS policy. ([#68923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68923), [@delulu](https://github.com/delulu))

##  External Dependencies

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))...

  
  When the feature gate is enabled, kubelet ignores errors that happens during setting the following sysctl values: `vm.overcommit_memory`, `vm.panic_on_oom`, `kernel.panic`, `kernel.panic_on_oops`, `kernel.keys.root_maxkeys`, `kernel.keys.root_maxbytes`. (These sysctl values for the host, not for the containers)
  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.

- SCTP support in API objects (Pod, Service, NetworkPolicy) is now GA.
  Note that this has no effect on whether SCTP is enabled on nodes at the kernel level,
  and note that some cloud platforms and network plugins do not support SCTP traffic. ([#95566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95566), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Changes behaviour of kube-proxy start; does not attempt to set specific `sysctl` values (which does not work in recent Kernel versions anymore in non-init namespaces), when the current sysctl values are already set higher. ([#103174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103174), [@Napsty](https://github.com/Napsty))