diff --git a/gnocchi/common/swift.py b/gnocchi/common/swift.py
index f961ba441..3664b3a89 100644
--- a/gnocchi/common/swift.py
+++ b/gnocchi/common/swift.py
@@ -12,46 +12,62 @@
 # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 import daiquiri
+import keystoneauth1.session
 from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote
 
+from gnocchi import storage
+
+LOG = daiquiri.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
 try:
     from swiftclient import client as swclient
     from swiftclient import utils as swift_utils
+
+    class CustomSwiftConnecion(swclient.Connection):
+        def __init__(self, conf):
+            self.conf = conf
+
+            os_options = {
+                'endpoint_type': conf.swift_endpoint_type,
+                'service_type':  conf.swift_service_type,
+                'user_domain_name': conf.swift_user_domain_name,
+                'project_domain_name': conf.swift_project_domain_name,
+            }
+            if conf.swift_region:
+                os_options['region_name'] = conf.swift_region
+
+            super(CustomSwiftConnecion, self).__init__(
+                preauthurl=conf.swift_url,
+                auth_version=conf.swift_auth_version,
+                authurl=conf.swift_authurl,
+                preauthtoken=conf.swift_preauthtoken,
+                user=conf.swift_user,
+                key=conf.swift_key,
+                tenant_name=conf.swift_project_name,
+                timeout=conf.swift_timeout,
+                insecure=conf.swift_auth_insecure,
+                os_options=os_options,
+                cacert=conf.swift_cacert,
+                retries=0)
+
+        def http_connection(self, url=None):
+            conn = super(CustomSwiftConnecion, self).http_connection(url)
+            adapter = keystoneauth1.session.TCPKeepAliveAdapter(
+                pool_maxsize=self.conf.swift_max_parallel_requests)
+            conn.request_session.mount("http://", adapter)
+            conn.request_session.mount("https://", adapter)
+            return conn
+
 except ImportError:
     swclient = None
     swift_utils = None
 
-from gnocchi import storage
-
-LOG = daiquiri.getLogger(__name__)
-
 
 def get_connection(conf):
     if swclient is None:
         raise RuntimeError("python-swiftclient unavailable")
-
-    os_options = {
-        'endpoint_type': conf.swift_endpoint_type,
-        'service_type':  conf.swift_service_type,
-        'user_domain_name': conf.swift_user_domain_name,
-        'project_domain_name': conf.swift_project_domain_name,
-    }
-    if conf.swift_region:
-        os_options['region_name'] = conf.swift_region
-
-    return swclient.Connection(
-        preauthurl=conf.swift_url,
-        auth_version=conf.swift_auth_version,
-        authurl=conf.swift_authurl,
-        preauthtoken=conf.swift_preauthtoken,
-        user=conf.swift_user,
-        key=conf.swift_key,
-        tenant_name=conf.swift_project_name,
-        timeout=conf.swift_timeout,
-        insecure=conf.swift_auth_insecure,
-        os_options=os_options,
-        cacert=conf.swift_cacert,
-        retries=0)
+    return CustomSwiftConnecion(conf)
 
 
 POST_HEADERS = {'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}
diff --git a/gnocchi/storage/swift.py b/gnocchi/storage/swift.py
index c1a1ff65a..b21b0b4ec 100644
--- a/gnocchi/storage/swift.py
+++ b/gnocchi/storage/swift.py
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
     cfg.StrOpt('swift_url',
                help='Swift URL. '
                'If unset, it is obtained from the auth service.'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('swift_max_parallel_requests',
+               default=50,
+               # NOTE(sileht): python-requests default in 10, it's far too low
+               # for any workload.
+               help='Maximun of Swift parallel requests.'),
     cfg.StrOpt('swift_authurl',
                default="http://localhost:8080/auth/v1.0",
                help='Swift auth URL.'),