tion balancer. As its name says, a lock is held during balancing so that connection counts are nearly exactly balanced between workers. It is &ldquo;nearly&rdquo; exact in the sense that a connection might close in parallel thus making the counts incorrect, but this should be rectified on the next accept. This balancer sacrifices accept throughput for accuracy and should be used when there are a small number of connections that rarely cycle, e.g., service mesh gRPC egress.</p><p>Obviously, it is not suitabl