diff --git a/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md b/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md index ae8fe5e00f..4180db15cc 100644 --- a/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md +++ b/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ is enabled (you can do this by including `TaintBasedEvictions=true` in `--featur `--feature-gates=FooBar=true,TaintBasedEvictions=true`), the taints are automatically added by the NodeController and the normal logic for evicting pods from nodes based on the Ready NodeCondition is disabled. -(Note: To maintain the existing [rate limiting](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/node/#node-controller)) +(Note: To maintain the existing [rate limiting](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/node/#node-controller) behavior of pod evictions due to node problems, the system actually adds the taints in a rate-limited way. This prevents massive pod evictions in scenarios such as the master becoming partitioned from the nodes.)