diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahArguments.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahArguments.cpp
index 751dad97b3b..eec0047cbbe 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahArguments.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahArguments.cpp
@@ -60,11 +60,9 @@ void ShenandoahArguments::initialize() {
   }
 
   // Enable NUMA by default. While Shenandoah is not NUMA-aware, enabling NUMA makes
-  // storage allocation code NUMA-aware, and NUMA interleaving makes the storage
-  // allocated in consistent manner (interleaving) to minimize run-to-run variance.
+  // storage allocation code NUMA-aware.
   if (FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(UseNUMA)) {
     FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(UseNUMA, true);
-    FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(UseNUMAInterleaving, true);
   }
 
   // Set up default number of concurrent threads. We want to have cycles complete fast