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diff --git a/src/gen_server2.erl b/src/gen_server2.erl
index 4326a4473c..204a4f9831 100644
--- a/src/gen_server2.erl
+++ b/src/gen_server2.erl
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
%% this timeout has occurred, hibernation will occur as normal. Upon
%% awaking, a new current timeout value will be calculated.
%%
+%% 7) an mcall/1 function has been added, to facilitate running
+%% gen_server:call/3 in parallel to multiple servers and awaiting all
+%% the results. This differs from multi_call in that it can operate
+%% on targets on any combination of nodes (or just the local node).
+%%
%% The purpose is that the gen_server2 takes care of adjusting the
%% current timeout value such that the process will increase the
%% timeout value repeatedly if it is unable to sleep for the