diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index 6063581f705c..ce0618bfa8d0 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -115,9 +115,9 @@ static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
 	unsigned long pressure = 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * reclaimed can be greater than scanned in cases
-	 * like THP, where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed
-	 * could be 512
+	 * reclaimed can be greater than scanned for things such as reclaimed
+	 * slab pages. shrink_node() just adds reclaimed pages without a
+	 * related increment to scanned pages.
 	 */
 	if (reclaimed >= scanned)
 		goto out;