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Subject: Re: [Cake] >40Gbit shaping
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Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> writes:

> While it seems unlikely we'll get to shaping past 40Gbit any time
> soon, perhaps changing the API to 64 bits to specify bandwidth will
> avoid problems in 2024, or with (one day) offloaded hardware.

Might as well. There is not really much of a performance reason to keep
this at 32bit, is there?

-Toke