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While neper is primarily a networking benchmark tool, it looks like it is also often used for network stack performance testing. These are various suggestions for improvements for this use case:

'Optimistic' I/O: A lot of applications used this pattern by which a server does not check epoll first before writing a response to a socket.

'Discard': For some reason, it seems the first (1,N?) measurements in the RR experiments are way off. Not sure whether those are just cold-start effects or something else is amiss. However, it does distort the latency measurements.

'Busywait': This mode allows using busywaiting across epoll and napi busypolling. A special case (0 < N < 1000) can be used for epoll busywaiting without napi busypolling.

The Makefile changes are just for good measure.

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