Given the advent of a very low latency requirements for Sphere, we should review the setup of sockets used for exchanging data in gossip.
The most important thing to check Nagle algorithm, but possibly also linger, buffer sizes (both on the OS and java side) etc.
If any possible improvements are spotted, small experiments checking the impact should be performed, but realistically, we won't see real effects there, it is too dependent on actual network, load etc. Any changes here should be put behind feature flags and tests in real low latency setup when it becomes available.