[PATCH v3 0/7] introduce per-queue limit watermark and host shaper

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 5/24/22 22:22, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 24/05/2022 21:00, Morten Brørup:
>> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
>>> 24/05/2022 17:20, Spike Du:
>>>> LWM(limit watermark) is per RX queue attribute, when RX queue
>>> fullness reach the LWM limit, HW sends an event to dpdk application.
>>
>> Please ignore this comment, it is not important, but I had to get it out of my system: I assume that the "LWM" name is from the NIC datasheet; otherwise I would probably prefer something with "threshold"... LWM is easily confused with "low water mark", which is the opposite of what the LWM does. Names are always open for discussion, so I won't object to it.
> 
> Yes it is a threshold, and yes it is often called a watermark.
> I think we can get more ideas and votes about the naming.
> Please let's conclude on a short name which can be inserted
> easily in function names.

As I understand it is an Rx queue fill (level) threshold.
"fill_thresh" or "flt" if the first one is too long.