diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index b36acad29ecb00..b936a502ca886e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -1668,11 +1668,6 @@ to sockets.
    See the Unix manual page :manpage:`recv(2)` for the meaning of the optional argument
    *flags*; it defaults to zero.
 
-   .. note::
-
-      For best match with hardware and network realities, the value of  *bufsize*
-      should be a relatively small power of 2, for example, 4096.
-
    .. versionchanged:: 3.5
       If the system call is interrupted and the signal handler does not raise
       an exception, the method now retries the system call instead of raising