Disable outgoing token bucket and reduce token bucket refill interval
Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann have written a patch to a) disable the outgoing token bucket to avoid the "double door effect" and b) reduce the token bucket refill interval from 1 second to, say, 100 milliseconds or less.
Sebastian and I discussed the patch with Florian and Björn. See the latest version of the patch in branch tokenbucket in my public repository.