Methods and systems may provide for determining a plurality of buffer-related settings for a corresponding plurality of idle states and outputting the plurality of buffer-related settings to a device on a platform. The device may determine an observed bandwidth for a channel associated with a receive buffer and identify a selection of a buffer-related setting from the plurality of buffer-related settings based at least in part on the observed bandwidth. In one example, each buffer-related setting includes a latency tolerance and a corresponding idle duration.