diff --git a/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c b/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c
index 3f628f6a30c..367a31f41c5 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ static int	devd_pipe = -1;
 #define DEVD_RETRY_INTERVAL 60 /* seconds */
 static struct timeval tried_devd;
 
+/*
+ * This function returns summary load of all CPUs.  It was made so
+ * intentionally to not reduce performance in scenarios when several
+ * threads are processing requests as a pipeline -- running one at
+ * a time on different CPUs and waiting for each other.
+ */
 static int
 read_usage_times(int *load)
 {