Slotting is a crude approximation of the behaviors of shared media such
as cable, wifi, and LTE, which gather up a bunch of packets within a
varying delay window and deliver them, relative to that, nearly all at
once.
Nice…
One of the things I also notice in my LAN tests is latencies for different flows staying at more or less fixed (and different) positions relative to the mean in flent results. Those positions, and the mean, can change with each test run. Do you think this could result from the hashing to different hardware queues (four in my case) changing between test runs? And is it worth trying to simulate this effect, or not really?