diff --git a/doc/rados/configuration/osd-config-ref.rst b/doc/rados/configuration/osd-config-ref.rst
index dc01b229b1f..6ff7bda6cbc 100644
--- a/doc/rados/configuration/osd-config-ref.rst
+++ b/doc/rados/configuration/osd-config-ref.rst
@@ -415,8 +415,7 @@ Operations
 
 ``osd recovery op priority``
 
-:Description: The priority set for recovery operations. It is relative to
-              ``osd client op priority``.
+:Description: The priority set for recovery operations, if not specified by the pool's ``recovery_op_priority``.
 
 :Type: 32-bit Integer
 :Default: ``3``
@@ -944,6 +943,16 @@ perform well in a degraded state.
 :Type: Float
 :Default: ``0.025``
 
+
+``osd recovery priority``
+
+:Description: The default priority set for recovery work queue.  Not
+              related to a pool's ``recovery_priority``.
+
+:Type: 32-bit Integer
+:Default: ``5``
+
+
 Tiering
 =======
 
diff --git a/doc/rados/configuration/pool-pg-config-ref.rst b/doc/rados/configuration/pool-pg-config-ref.rst
index 31e2a0fd828..aaead074672 100644
--- a/doc/rados/configuration/pool-pg-config-ref.rst
+++ b/doc/rados/configuration/pool-pg-config-ref.rst
@@ -264,6 +264,20 @@ Ceph configuration file.
 :Type: Float
 :Default: ``2``
 
+``osd recovery priority``
+
+:Description: Priority of recovery in the work queue.
+
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``5``
+
+``osd recovery op priority``
+
+:Description: Default priority used for recovery operations if pool doesn't override.
+
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``3``
+
 .. _pool: ../../operations/pools
 .. _Monitoring OSDs and PGs: ../../operations/monitoring-osd-pg#peering
 .. _Weighting Bucket Items: ../../operations/crush-map#weightingbucketitems
diff --git a/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst b/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
index a4351fe4aa2..662b34ff31a 100644
--- a/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
+++ b/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
@@ -597,6 +597,27 @@ You may set values for the following keys:
 :Default: ``0``
 
 
+.. _recovery_priority:
+
+``recovery_priority``
+
+:Description: When a value is set it will boost the computed reservation priority
+              by this amount. This value should be less than 30.
+
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``0``
+
+
+.. _recovery_op_priority:
+
+``recovery_op_priority``
+
+:Description: Specify the recovery operation priority for this pool instead of ``osd_recovery_op_priority``.
+
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``0``
+
+
 Get Pool Values
 ===============
 
@@ -751,6 +772,20 @@ You may get values for the following keys:
 :Type: Boolean
 
 
+``recovery_priority``
+
+:Description: see recovery_priority_
+
+:Type: Integer
+
+
+``recovery_op_priority``
+
+:Description: see recovery_op_priority_
+
+:Type: Integer
+
+
 Set the Number of Object Replicas
 =================================
 
diff --git a/src/common/options.cc b/src/common/options.cc
index 3f2f5952d3b..a7e6c2392c7 100644
--- a/src/common/options.cc
+++ b/src/common/options.cc
@@ -2271,11 +2271,12 @@ std::vector<Option> get_global_options() {
 
     Option("osd_max_backfills", Option::TYPE_UINT, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
     .set_default(1)
-    .set_description("maximum number of concurrent backfills per OSD"),
+    .set_description("Maximum number of concurrent local and remote backfills or recoveries per OSD ")
+    .set_long_description("There can be osd_max_backfills local reservations AND the same remote reservations per OSD. So a value of 1 lets this OSD participate as 1 PG primary in recovery and 1 shard of another recovering PG."),
 
     Option("osd_min_recovery_priority", Option::TYPE_INT, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
     .set_default(0)
-    .set_description("minimum priority below which recovery is not performed")
+    .set_description("Minimum priority below which recovery is not performed")
     .set_long_description("The purpose here is to prevent the cluster from doing *any* lower priority work (e.g., rebalancing) below this threshold and focus solely on higher priority work (e.g., replicating degraded objects)."),
 
     Option("osd_backfill_retry_interval", Option::TYPE_FLOAT, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
@@ -3876,7 +3877,7 @@ std::vector<Option> get_global_options() {
 
     Option("osd_recovery_op_priority", Option::TYPE_UINT, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
     .set_default(3)
-    .set_description(""),
+    .set_description("Priority to use for recovery operations if not specified for the pool"),
 
     Option("osd_peering_op_priority", Option::TYPE_UINT, Option::LEVEL_DEV)
     .set_default(255)
@@ -3912,7 +3913,8 @@ std::vector<Option> get_global_options() {
 
     Option("osd_recovery_priority", Option::TYPE_UINT, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
     .set_default(5)
-    .set_description(""),
+    .set_description("Priority of recovery in the work queue")
+    .set_long_description("Not related to a pool's recovery_priority"),
 
     Option("osd_recovery_cost", Option::TYPE_SIZE, Option::LEVEL_ADVANCED)
     .set_default(20<<20)