diff --git a/src/flow-manager.c b/src/flow-manager.c
index 072a3cb74a..e085fffa6b 100644
--- a/src/flow-manager.c
+++ b/src/flow-manager.c
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ static uint32_t ProcessAsideQueue(FlowManagerTimeoutThread *td, FlowTimeoutCount
 
         if (f->proto == IPPROTO_TCP &&
                 !(f->flags & (FLOW_TIMEOUT_REASSEMBLY_DONE | FLOW_ACTION_DROP)) &&
-                !FlowIsBypassed(f) && FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(f)) {
+                !FlowIsBypassed(f) && FlowNeedsReassembly(f)) {
             /* Send the flow to its thread */
-            FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(f);
+            FlowSendToLocalThread(f);
             FLOWLOCK_UNLOCK(f);
             /* flow ownership is already passed to the worker thread */
 
diff --git a/src/flow-timeout.c b/src/flow-timeout.c
index 01d60fe251..87ec7e1686 100644
--- a/src/flow-timeout.c
+++ b/src/flow-timeout.c
@@ -66,17 +66,18 @@
 
 /**
  * \internal
- * \brief Pseudo packet setup for flow forced reassembly.
+ * \brief Pseudo packet setup to finish a flow when needed.
  *
+ * \param p         a dummy pseudo packet from packet pool.  Not all pseudo
+ *                  packets need to force reassembly, in which case we just
+ *                  set dummy ack/seq values.
  * \param direction Direction of the packet.  0 indicates toserver and 1
  *                  indicates toclient.
  * \param f         Pointer to the flow.
  * \param ssn       Pointer to the tcp session.
- * \param dummy     Indicates to create a dummy pseudo packet.  Not all pseudo
- *                  packets need to force reassembly, in which case we just
- *                  set dummy ack/seq values.
+ * \retval          pseudo packet with everything set up
  */
-static inline Packet *FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketSetup(
+static inline Packet *FlowPseudoPacketSetup(
         Packet *p, int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSession *ssn)
 {
     const int orig_dir = direction;
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ error:
     return NULL;
 }
 
-Packet *FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSession *ssn)
+Packet *FlowPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSession *ssn)
 {
     PacketPoolWait();
     Packet *p = PacketPoolGetPacket();
@@ -273,7 +274,7 @@ Packet *FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSess
 
     PACKET_PROFILING_START(p);
 
-    return FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketSetup(p, direction, f, ssn);
+    return FlowPseudoPacketSetup(p, direction, f, ssn);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ Packet *FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSess
  *  \retval false no
  *  \retval true yes
  */
-bool FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(Flow *f)
+bool FlowNeedsReassembly(Flow *f)
 {
 
     if (f == NULL || f->protoctx == NULL) {
@@ -330,7 +331,7 @@ bool FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(Flow *f)
 
 /**
  * \internal
- * \brief Forces reassembly for flow if it needs it.
+ * \brief Sends the flow to its respective thread's flow queue.
  *
  *        The function requires flow to be locked beforehand.
  *
@@ -339,10 +340,8 @@ bool FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(Flow *f)
  * flag is set, choose the second thread_id (to client/source).
  *
  * \param f Pointer to the flow.
- *
- * \retval 0 This flow doesn't need any reassembly processing; 1 otherwise.
  */
-void FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(Flow *f)
+void FlowSendToLocalThread(Flow *f)
 {
     // Choose the thread_id based on whether the flow has been
     // reversed.
@@ -352,7 +351,8 @@ void FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(Flow *f)
 
 /**
  * \internal
- * \brief Forces reassembly for flows that need it.
+ * \brief Remove flows from the hash bucket as they have more work to be done in
+ *        in the detection engine.
  *
  * When this function is called we're running in virtually dead engine,
  * so locking the flows is not strictly required. The reasons it is still
@@ -362,10 +362,8 @@ void FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(Flow *f)
  * - allow us to aggressively check using debug validation assertions
  * - be robust in case of future changes
  * - locking overhead is negligible when no other thread fights us
- *
- * \param q The queue to process flows from.
  */
-static inline void FlowForceReassemblyForHash(void)
+static inline void FlowRemoveHash(void)
 {
     for (uint32_t idx = 0; idx < flow_config.hash_size; idx++) {
         FlowBucket *fb = &flow_hash[idx];
@@ -392,10 +390,10 @@ static inline void FlowForceReassemblyForHash(void)
 
             /* in case of additional work, we pull the flow out of the
              * hash and xfer ownership to the injected packet(s) */
-            if (FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(f)) {
+            if (FlowNeedsReassembly(f)) {
                 RemoveFromHash(f, prev_f);
                 f->flow_end_flags |= FLOW_END_FLAG_SHUTDOWN;
-                FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(f);
+                FlowSendToLocalThread(f);
                 FLOWLOCK_UNLOCK(f);
                 f = next_f;
                 continue;
@@ -412,10 +410,11 @@ static inline void FlowForceReassemblyForHash(void)
 }
 
 /**
- * \brief Force reassembly for all the flows that have unprocessed segments.
+ * \brief Clean up all the flows that have unprocessed segments and have
+ *        some work to do in the detection engine.
  */
-void FlowForceReassembly(void)
+void FlowWorkToDoCleanup(void)
 {
-    /* Carry out flow reassembly for unattended flows */
-    FlowForceReassemblyForHash();
+    /* Carry out cleanup of unattended flows */
+    FlowRemoveHash();
 }
diff --git a/src/flow-timeout.h b/src/flow-timeout.h
index 467fd821cd..60b07be8b8 100644
--- a/src/flow-timeout.h
+++ b/src/flow-timeout.h
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 
 #include "stream-tcp-private.h"
 
-void FlowForceReassemblyForFlow(Flow *f);
-bool FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(Flow *f);
-void FlowForceReassembly(void);
-Packet *FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSession *ssn);
+void FlowSendToLocalThread(Flow *f);
+bool FlowNeedsReassembly(Flow *f);
+void FlowWorkToDoCleanup(void);
+Packet *FlowPseudoPacketGet(int direction, Flow *f, const TcpSession *ssn);
 
 #endif /* SURICATA_FLOW_TIMEOUT_H */
diff --git a/src/flow-worker.c b/src/flow-worker.c
index 1983111a1b..61a3811f09 100644
--- a/src/flow-worker.c
+++ b/src/flow-worker.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int FlowFinish(ThreadVars *tv, Flow *f, FlowWorkerThreadData *fw, void *d
 
     /* insert a pseudo packet in the toserver direction */
     if (client == STREAM_HAS_UNPROCESSED_SEGMENTS_NEED_ONLY_DETECTION) {
-        Packet *p = FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(0, f, ssn);
+        Packet *p = FlowPseudoPacketGet(0, f, ssn);
         if (p != NULL) {
             PKT_SET_SRC(p, PKT_SRC_FFR);
             if (server == STREAM_HAS_UNPROCESSED_SEGMENTS_NONE) {
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static int FlowFinish(ThreadVars *tv, Flow *f, FlowWorkerThreadData *fw, void *d
 
     /* handle toclient */
     if (server == STREAM_HAS_UNPROCESSED_SEGMENTS_NEED_ONLY_DETECTION) {
-        Packet *p = FlowForceReassemblyPseudoPacketGet(1, f, ssn);
+        Packet *p = FlowPseudoPacketGet(1, f, ssn);
         if (p != NULL) {
             PKT_SET_SRC(p, PKT_SRC_FFR);
             p->flowflags |= FLOW_PKT_LAST_PSEUDO;
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void CheckWorkQueue(ThreadVars *tv, FlowWorkerThreadData *fw, FlowTimeout
 
         if (f->proto == IPPROTO_TCP) {
             if (!(f->flags & (FLOW_TIMEOUT_REASSEMBLY_DONE | FLOW_ACTION_DROP)) &&
-                    !FlowIsBypassed(f) && FlowForceReassemblyNeedReassembly(f) && f->ffr != 0) {
+                    !FlowIsBypassed(f) && FlowNeedsReassembly(f) && f->ffr != 0) {
                 /* read detect thread in case we're doing a reload */
                 void *detect_thread = SC_ATOMIC_GET(fw->detect_thread);
                 int cnt = FlowFinish(tv, f, fw, detect_thread);
diff --git a/src/suricata.c b/src/suricata.c
index 0ff1bdbb83..f7a03a208c 100644
--- a/src/suricata.c
+++ b/src/suricata.c
@@ -2273,14 +2273,14 @@ void PostRunDeinit(const int runmode, struct timeval *start_time)
     if (runmode == RUNMODE_UNIX_SOCKET)
         return;
 
-    /* needed by FlowForceReassembly */
+    /* needed by FlowWorkToDoCleanup */
     PacketPoolInit();
 
     /* handle graceful shutdown of the flow engine, it's helper
      * threads and the packet threads */
     FlowDisableFlowManagerThread();
     TmThreadDisableReceiveThreads();
-    FlowForceReassembly();
+    FlowWorkToDoCleanup();
     TmThreadDisablePacketThreads();
     SCPrintElapsedTime(start_time);
     FlowDisableFlowRecyclerThread();