diff --git a/scst/README b/scst/README
index 273d56596..341405a5e 100644
--- a/scst/README
+++ b/scst/README
@@ -395,9 +395,9 @@ 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
 
diff --git a/scst/src/scst_priv.h b/scst/src/scst_priv.h
index 58172740d..85a2db3a1 100644
--- a/scst/src/scst_priv.h
+++ b/scst/src/scst_priv.h
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ extern struct scst_acg *scst_default_acg;
 extern unsigned int scst_setup_id;
 #endif
 
-#define SCST_DEF_MAX_TASKLET_CMD 20
+#define SCST_DEF_MAX_TASKLET_CMD 10
 extern int scst_max_tasklet_cmd;
 
 extern spinlock_t scst_init_lock;