After 2**64 counts the saturation computation will stop working. It would take 24 years of constant maxed out data transfer for a 12x QDR link to wrap a 64 bit dword byte counter.
Drifting a bit, and perhaps not properly interpreting some of the TLAs, but I suspect that if we go back oh 20ish years or so, we could find similar calculations being put forth to show how very long a 32-bit counter would last :) Perhaps it isn't too too early to start talking about > 64 bit counters...
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