Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755616AbYBQFxj (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752005AbYBQFx2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:53:28 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41486 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751755AbYBQFx1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:53:27 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:54:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080216.215401.20463603.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: include/linux/pcounter.h From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080216112618.ec450f9b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080216025051.751b4a86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47B6D12A.3090401@cosmosbay.com> <20080216112618.ec450f9b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 19 From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:26:18 -0800 > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:03:54 +0100 Eric Dumazet 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/