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 [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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.