diff --git a/man2/mbind.2 b/man2/mbind.2
index 1fc02415e..60b64ebd2 100644
--- a/man2/mbind.2
+++ b/man2/mbind.2
@@ -219,6 +219,15 @@ the node with sufficient free memory that is closest to
 the node where the allocation takes place.
 Pages will not be allocated from any node not specified in the
 IR nodemask .
+(Before Linux 2.6.26,
+.\" commit 19770b32609b6bf97a3dece2529089494cbfc549
+page allocations came from
+the node with the lowest numeric node ID first, until that node
+contained no free memory.
+Allocations then came from the node with the next highest
+node ID specified in
+.I nodemask
+and so forth, until none of the specified nodes contained free memory.)
 .TP
 .B MPOL_INTERLEAVE
 This mode specifies that page allocations be interleaved across the