diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/net_prio.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/net_prio.txt
index 01b3226..a82cbd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/net_prio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/net_prio.txt
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@
 traffic to be steered to hardware/driver based traffic classes. These mappings
 can then be managed by administrators or other networking protocols such as
 DCBX.
+
+A new net_prio cgroup inherits the parent's configuration.