Hi
The counter question is how much delay you want to achive
you should stop the invertor chain when it rise/fall time is comparable to the delay of the inverot chain(say equal, or half )
This may take few nano seconds, based on your technology
Added after 3 minutes:
one more thing i forgot to mention
in case you have a very long invertor chain, dont allow first few stage to saturate, this will buy you some time ,
this is conventional high speed io design strategy
regards