diff --git a/docs/configuration/optimization.md b/docs/configuration/optimization.md
index db9dfb313fb8..357a5eb59406 100644
--- a/docs/configuration/optimization.md
+++ b/docs/configuration/optimization.md
@@ -153,13 +153,14 @@ from vllm import LLM
 
 llm = LLM(
     model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct",
-    # Create two EngineCore instances, one per DP rank
-    data_parallel_size=2,
-    # Within each EngineCore instance:
-    # The vision encoder uses TP=4 (not DP=2) to shard the input data
-    # The language decoder uses TP=4 to shard the weights as usual
     tensor_parallel_size=4,
+    # When mm_encoder_tp_mode="data",
+    # the vision encoder uses TP=4 (not DP=1) to shard the input data,
+    # so the TP size becomes the effective DP size.
+    # Note that this is independent of the DP size for language decoder which is used in expert parallel setting.
     mm_encoder_tp_mode="data",
+    # The language decoder uses TP=4 to shard the weights regardless
+    # of the setting of mm_encoder_tp_mode
 )
 ```