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diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 4348d95e571f..4bdbee80eede 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ enum {
#define COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
/*
- * Ratio between the present memory in the zone and the "gap" that
- * we're allowing kswapd to shrink in addition to the per-zone high
- * wmark, even for zones that already have the high wmark satisfied,
- * in order to provide better per-zone lru behavior. We are ok to
+ * Ratio between zone->managed_pages and the "gap" that above the per-zone
+ * "high_wmark". While balancing nodes, We allow kswapd to shrink zones that
+ * do not meet the (high_wmark + gap) watermark, even which already met the
+ * high_wmark, in order to provide better per-zone lru behavior. We are ok to
* spend not more than 1% of the memory for this zone balancing "gap".
*/
#define KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO 100