It sounds like the above poster is in a situation with multiple priority queues, where as long as latency and throughput for high priority items is good, having

It sounds like the above poster is in a situation with multiple priority queues, where as long as latency and throughput for high priority items is good, having higher latency for lower priority items is fine, and could be a form of low-cost back pressure on new orders or signalling to improve the throughput a little bit.