diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
index ebfa163b80b5..cd872e9c3a9c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
 	OPT_INTEGER('H', "thp"		, &p0.thp,		"MADV_NOHUGEPAGE < 0 < MADV_HUGEPAGE"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "show_convergence", &p0.show_convergence, "show convergence details"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "measure_convergence",	&p0.measure_convergence, "measure convergence latency"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet"	, &p0.show_quiet,	"bzero the initial allocations"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet"	, &p0.show_quiet,	"quiet mode"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('S', "serialize-startup", &p0.serialize_startup,"serialize thread startup"),
 
 	/* Special option string parsing callbacks: */
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ static void print_res(const char *name, double val,
 	if (!name)
 		name = "main,";
 
-	if (g->p.show_quiet)
+	if (!g->p.show_quiet)
 		printf(" %-30s %15.3f, %-15s %s\n", name, val, txt_unit, txt_short);
 	else
 		printf(" %14.3f %s\n", val, txt_long);