> On 4 Sep 2023, at 23:43, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > Alexander Bluhm: > >> Variable scs_use is basically counting packet insertions to syn >> cache, so I would prefer type long to exclude overflow on fast >> machines. With the current limits int should be enough, but long >> does not hurt. > > But long is the same size as int. On our 32-bit archs. Or are > those inherently so slow that this doesn't matter for them? >
Guess this relies to packets count. 32-bit machines are much limited, so a 32-bit counter is sufficient, while 64-bit machines can store many more packets.
