diff --git a/scst/README_in-tree b/scst/README_in-tree
index a7c71bc4b..4937c8a60 100644
--- a/scst/README_in-tree
+++ b/scst/README_in-tree
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ following entries:
    initiators to allow processing commands on this CPU in soft-IRQ
    context in tasklets. If the count of the commands exceeds this value,
    then all of them will be processed only in SCST threads. This is to
-   to prevent possible starvation under heavy load and in some cases to
-   improve performance by more evenly spreading load over available
-   CPUs.
+   to prevent possible under heavy load starvation of processes on the
+   CPUs serving soft IRQs and in some cases to improve performance by
+   more evenly spreading load over available CPUs.
 
  - sgv - this is a root subdirectory for all SCST SGV caches