Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently scheduling semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink transmissions and dynamic downlink transmissions to maximize throughput in a wireless communications system. In one example, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink data in a dynamic downlink transmission and receive the same downlink data or no data in an SPS downlink transmission when the dynamic downlink transmission is scheduled to occur after the SPS downlink transmission and before an uplink feedback transmission for the SPS downlink transmission. In another example, a UE may receive downlink data in a dynamic downlink transmission and receive the same downlink data or no downlink data in an SPS downlink transmission when the SPS downlink transmission is scheduled to occur after the dynamic downlink transmission and before an uplink feedback transmission for the dynamic downlink transmission.