diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/generation.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/generation.c
index 65fd00d013..f9016a7ed7 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/generation.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/generation.c
@@ -271,8 +271,10 @@ GenerationContextCreate(MemoryContext parent,
  * GenerationReset
  *		Frees all memory which is allocated in the given set.
  *
- * The code simply frees all the blocks in the context - we don't keep any
- * keeper blocks or anything like that.
+ * The initial "keeper" block (which shares a malloc chunk with the context
+ * header) is not given back to the operating system though.  In this way, we
+ * don't thrash malloc() when a context is repeatedly reset after small
+ * allocations.
  */
 void
 GenerationReset(MemoryContext context)