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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:26:18 -0800

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:03:54 +0100 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, per connection basis. Some workloads want to open/close more than 1000 
> > sockets per second.
> 
> ie: slowpath

Definitely not slow path in the networking.

Connection rates are definitely as, or more, important than packet
rates for certain workloads.