diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
index 9b0f683886d..02a82b87ab1 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
@@ -486,8 +486,8 @@ func AddKubeletConfigFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet, c *kubeletconfig.KubeletConfigurat
 	fs.DurationVar(&c.StreamingConnectionIdleTimeout.Duration, "streaming-connection-idle-timeout", c.StreamingConnectionIdleTimeout.Duration, "Maximum time a streaming connection can be idle before the connection is automatically closed. 0 indicates no timeout. Example: '5m'")
 	fs.DurationVar(&c.NodeStatusUpdateFrequency.Duration, "node-status-update-frequency", c.NodeStatusUpdateFrequency.Duration, "Specifies how often kubelet posts node status to master. Note: be cautious when changing the constant, it must work with nodeMonitorGracePeriod in nodecontroller.")
 	fs.DurationVar(&c.ImageMinimumGCAge.Duration, "minimum-image-ttl-duration", c.ImageMinimumGCAge.Duration, "Minimum age for an unused image before it is garbage collected.  Examples: '300ms', '10s' or '2h45m'.")
-	fs.Int32Var(&c.ImageGCHighThresholdPercent, "image-gc-high-threshold", c.ImageGCHighThresholdPercent, "The percent of disk usage after which image garbage collection is always run.")
-	fs.Int32Var(&c.ImageGCLowThresholdPercent, "image-gc-low-threshold", c.ImageGCLowThresholdPercent, "The percent of disk usage before which image garbage collection is never run. Lowest disk usage to garbage collect to.")
+	fs.Int32Var(&c.ImageGCHighThresholdPercent, "image-gc-high-threshold", c.ImageGCHighThresholdPercent, "The percent of disk usage after which image garbage collection is always run.Values must be winthin the range [0, 100], To disable image garbage collection, set to 0. ")
+	fs.Int32Var(&c.ImageGCLowThresholdPercent, "image-gc-low-threshold", c.ImageGCLowThresholdPercent, "The percent of disk usage before which image garbage collection is never run. Lowest disk usage to garbage collect to.Values must be winthin the range [0, 100] and should not be larger than that of --image-gc-high-threshold.")
 	fs.DurationVar(&c.VolumeStatsAggPeriod.Duration, "volume-stats-agg-period", c.VolumeStatsAggPeriod.Duration, "Specifies interval for kubelet to calculate and cache the volume disk usage for all pods and volumes.  To disable volume calculations, set to 0.")
 	fs.Var(flag.NewMapStringBool(&c.FeatureGates), "feature-gates", "A set of key=value pairs that describe feature gates for alpha/experimental features. "+
 		"Options are:\n"+strings.Join(utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.KnownFeatures(), "\n"))
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/images/image_gc_manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/images/image_gc_manager.go
index 15b8780bd86..8de7afb5e99 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/images/image_gc_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/images/image_gc_manager.go
@@ -290,6 +290,11 @@ func (im *realImageGCManager) GarbageCollect() error {
 
 	// If over the max threshold, free enough to place us at the lower threshold.
 	usagePercent := 100 - int(available*100/capacity)
+	if im.policy.HighThresholdPercent == 0 {
+		glog.Warningf("Disk usage percent is %d, the high threshold is 0, will not image GC on device %q at mount point %q", usagePercent, fsInfo.Device, fsInfo.Mountpoint)
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	if usagePercent >= im.policy.HighThresholdPercent {
 		amountToFree := capacity*int64(100-im.policy.LowThresholdPercent)/100 - available
 		glog.Infof("[imageGCManager]: Disk usage on image filesystem is at %d%% which is over the high threshold (%d%%). Trying to free %d bytes", usagePercent, im.policy.HighThresholdPercent, amountToFree)