diff --git a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/options/nodelifecyclecontroller.go b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/options/nodelifecyclecontroller.go
index b48e051686b..fe5181f31b9 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/options/nodelifecyclecontroller.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-controller-manager/app/options/nodelifecyclecontroller.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (o *NodeLifecycleControllerOptions) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 			"where N means number of retries allowed for kubelet to post node status.")
 	fs.Float32Var(&o.NodeEvictionRate, "node-eviction-rate", 0.1, "Number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is healthy (see --unhealthy-zone-threshold for definition of healthy/unhealthy). Zone refers to entire cluster in non-multizone clusters.")
 	fs.Float32Var(&o.SecondaryNodeEvictionRate, "secondary-node-eviction-rate", 0.01, "Number of nodes per second on which pods are deleted in case of node failure when a zone is unhealthy (see --unhealthy-zone-threshold for definition of healthy/unhealthy). Zone refers to entire cluster in non-multizone clusters. This value is implicitly overridden to 0 if the cluster size is smaller than --large-cluster-size-threshold.")
-	fs.Int32Var(&o.LargeClusterSizeThreshold, "large-cluster-size-threshold", 50, fmt.Sprintf("Number of nodes from which %s treats the cluster as large for the eviction logic purposes. --secondary-node-eviction-rate is implicitly overridden to 0 for clusters this size or smaller.", names.NodeLifecycleController))
+	fs.Int32Var(&o.LargeClusterSizeThreshold, "large-cluster-size-threshold", 50, fmt.Sprintf("Number of nodes from which %s treats the cluster as large for the eviction logic purposes. --secondary-node-eviction-rate is implicitly overridden to 0 for clusters this size or smaller. Notice: If nodes reside in multiple zones, this threshold will be considered as zone node size threshold for each zone to determine node eviction rate independently.", names.NodeLifecycleController))
 	fs.Float32Var(&o.UnhealthyZoneThreshold, "unhealthy-zone-threshold", 0.55, "Fraction of Nodes in a zone which needs to be not Ready (minimum 3) for zone to be treated as unhealthy. ")
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/controller/nodelifecycle/node_lifecycle_controller.go b/pkg/controller/nodelifecycle/node_lifecycle_controller.go
index 70e144452e7..08dfd358226 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/nodelifecycle/node_lifecycle_controller.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/nodelifecycle/node_lifecycle_controller.go
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ func (nc *Controller) HealthyQPSFunc(nodeNum int) float32 {
 	return nc.evictionLimiterQPS
 }
 
-// ReducedQPSFunc returns the QPS for when a the cluster is large make
+// ReducedQPSFunc returns the QPS for when the cluster is large make
 // evictions slower, if they're small stop evictions altogether.
 func (nc *Controller) ReducedQPSFunc(nodeNum int) float32 {
 	if int32(nodeNum) > nc.largeClusterThreshold {