diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 83baec24946d7449194e94893f92f918b14c79b5..6e8f416773d4b221713c30079eb1de1f732e5ded 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -324,7 +324,8 @@ static noinline int add_async_extent(struct async_cow *cow,
  * If this code finds it can't get good compression, it puts an
  * entry onto the work queue to write the uncompressed bytes.  This
  * makes sure that both compressed inodes and uncompressed inodes
- * are written in the same order that pdflush sent them down.
+ * are written in the same order that the flusher thread sent them
+ * down.
  */
 static noinline int compress_file_range(struct inode *inode,
 					struct page *locked_page,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
index 643335a4fe3c6699a894c19d01e79bed9ef631c7..051c7fe551dd38bb7e391e5abaeff992f32b90f7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ void btrfs_start_ordered_extent(struct inode *inode,
 	/*
 	 * pages in the range can be dirty, clean or writeback.  We
 	 * start IO on any dirty ones so the wait doesn't stall waiting
-	 * for pdflush to find them
+	 * for the flusher thread to find them
 	 */
 	if (!test_bit(BTRFS_ORDERED_DIRECT, &entry->flags))
 		filemap_fdatawrite_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);