I'd be curious if you have any evidence that this occurs in practice. Even a busy server with clients of uniform + low latency, intuitively I'd expect fairly low ATRs.
I think what's more important in what I'm finding is that you really need both.
I'm not sure you do: the performance advantage of poll seems marginal at best. When ATR is high, you're presumably doing enough real work that the slight overhead of epoll vs. poll is probably not super important.