diff --git a/doc/man/man1/salloc.1 b/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
index b074368dc54518b4543352fab6c87d549ed104cb..1b359f5e0d3250bcf6c2cca450213e5a04818f5e 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/salloc.1
@@ -557,7 +557,9 @@ of tasks is no larger than the number of allocated nodes.
 The tasks are distributed in blocks of a specified size.  The options
 include a number representing the size of the task block.  This is
 followed by an optional specification of the task distribution scheme
-within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  For more
+within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  The number of tasks
+distributed to each node is the same as for cyclic distribution, but the
+taskids assigned to each node depend on the plane size. For more
 details (including examples and diagrams), please see
 .br
 http://slurm.schedmd.com/mc_support.html
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1 b/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
index 05e383c2265212efd064c751324e9216a3e28175..70e5859a2085b558fe5fe7069541d4634d066a6b 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sbatch.1
@@ -641,7 +641,9 @@ of tasks is no larger than the number of allocated nodes.
 The tasks are distributed in blocks of a specified size.  The options
 include a number representing the size of the task block.  This is
 followed by an optional specification of the task distribution scheme
-within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  For more
+within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  The number of tasks
+distributed to each node is the same as for cyclic distribution, but the
+taskids assigned to each node depend on the plane size.  For more
 details (including examples and diagrams), please see
 .br
 http://slurm.schedmd.com/mc_support.html
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/srun.1 b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
index 5b130fff95a87d9975dc7f685960c187ef37843b..1f259683be71302713f1a4cb0751d77a05c04275 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/srun.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/srun.1
@@ -668,7 +668,9 @@ of tasks is no larger than the number of allocated nodes.
 The tasks are distributed in blocks of a specified size.  The options
 include a number representing the size of the task block.  This is
 followed by an optional specification of the task distribution scheme
-within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  For more
+within a block of tasks and between the blocks of tasks.  The number of tasks
+distributed to each node is the same as for cyclic distribution, but the
+taskids assigned to each node depend on the plane size. For more
 details (including examples and diagrams), please see
 .br
 http://slurm.schedmd.com/mc_support.html