Sorry, but IMHO forrest was referring to tampering with the p2pool settings, namely
Ah, I see where you're coming from - could be so. It would be nice if forrestv chimes in with his thoughts/ideas about the upcoming blocksize increase & what aterations are needed for p2pool to take advantage of it though.
If max block size is increased it will require a hard fork of P2Pool (not nearly as big of a deal as a Bitcoin HF, we did 2 in the last year), not much to do about it now as any block > 1MB will be rejected by the network.