> The present division by two appears to be somewhat randomly chosen. > And as far as I can tell, this patch proposes replacing that with > another somewhat random adjustment. > > What's the actual design here? What are we attempting to do and why, > and why is the proposed design superior to the present one? We are further analyzing both the designs and their impact on pcp list. > Nice, but might other workloads on other machines get slower? We are studying the impact of this on other network workloads like netperf, and will post those results soon.