diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/SimpleRegionNormalizer.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/SimpleRegionNormalizer.java
index 767324aa49c..38cf84722b5 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/SimpleRegionNormalizer.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/normalizer/SimpleRegionNormalizer.java
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.RequestConverter;
  * Logic in use:
  *
  *  <ol>
- *  <li> get all regions of a given table
- *  <li> get avg size S of each region (by total size of store files reported in RegionLoad)
- *  <li> If biggest region is bigger than S * 2, it is kindly requested to split,
- *    and normalization stops
- *  <li> Otherwise, two smallest region R1 and its smallest neighbor R2 are kindly requested
- *    to merge, if R1 + R1 &lt;  S, and normalization stops
- *  <li> Otherwise, no action is performed
+ *  <li> Get all regions of a given table
+ *  <li> Get avg size S of each region (by total size of store files reported in RegionLoad)
+ *  <li> Seek every single region one by one. If a region R0 is bigger than S * 2, it is
+ *  kindly requested to split. Thereon evaluate the next region R1
+ *  <li> Otherwise, if R0 + R1 is smaller than S, R0 and R1 are kindly requested to merge.
+ *  Thereon evaluate the next region R2
+ *  <li> Otherwise, R1 is evaluated
  * </ol>
  * <p>
  * Region sizes are coarse and approximate on the order of megabytes. Additionally,