diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zHeap.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zHeap.cpp
index e99e32db8a5..96679d0723b 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zHeap.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zHeap.cpp
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ size_t ZHeap::unused() const {
 }
 
 size_t ZHeap::tlab_capacity() const {
-  return _tlab_usage.capacity();
+  return _tlab_usage.tlab_capacity();
 }
 
 size_t ZHeap::tlab_used() const {
-  return _tlab_usage.used();
+  return _tlab_usage.tlab_used();
 }
 
 size_t ZHeap::max_tlab_size() const {
diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.cpp
index 30f2851fb13..cd8141e47ff 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.cpp
@@ -29,42 +29,42 @@ ZTLABUsage::ZTLABUsage()
   : _used(0),
     _used_history() {}
 
-
 void ZTLABUsage::increase_used(size_t size) {
   Atomic::add(&_used, size, memory_order_relaxed);
 }
 
 void ZTLABUsage::decrease_used(size_t size) {
   precond(size <= _used);
+
   Atomic::sub(&_used, size, memory_order_relaxed);
 }
 
 void ZTLABUsage::reset() {
-  const size_t current_used = Atomic::xchg(&_used, (size_t) 0);
+  const size_t used = Atomic::xchg(&_used, (size_t) 0);
 
-  // Avoid updates for the second young generation collection of a SystemGC
-  if (current_used == 0) {
+  // Avoid updates when nothing has been allocated since the last YC
+  if (used == 0) {
     return;
   }
 
   // Save the old values for logging
-  const size_t old_used = used();
-  const size_t old_capacity = capacity();
+  const size_t old_tlab_used = tlab_used();
+  const size_t old_tlab_capacity = tlab_capacity();
 
   // Update the usage history with the current value
-  _used_history.add(current_used);
+  _used_history.add(used);
 
   log_debug(gc, tlab)("TLAB usage update: used %zuM -> %zuM, capacity: %zuM -> %zuM",
-                      old_used / M,
-                      used() / M,
-                      old_capacity / M,
-                      capacity() / M);
+                      old_tlab_used / M,
+                      tlab_used() / M,
+                      old_tlab_capacity / M,
+                      tlab_capacity() / M);
   }
 
-size_t ZTLABUsage::used() const {
+size_t ZTLABUsage::tlab_used() const {
   return _used_history.last();
 }
 
-size_t ZTLABUsage::capacity() const {
+size_t ZTLABUsage::tlab_capacity() const {
   return _used_history.davg();
 }
diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.hpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.hpp
index bdfb8c4ef7d..3d1b084fe16 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.hpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/z/zTLABUsage.hpp
@@ -36,11 +36,14 @@
 // ZGC does not have set generation sizes unlike most other GCs and because of
 // this there is no fixed TLAB capacity. For the common TLAB sizing heuristic
 // to work properly ZGC estimates the current capacity by using a weighted
-// average of the last 10 used values.
+// average of the last 10 used values. ZGC uses the last snapshotted value as
+// the value returned as tlab_used().
 
 class ZTLABUsage {
 private:
+  // Accounting TLAB used until the next GC cycle
   volatile size_t _used;
+  // Sequence of historic used values
   TruncatedSeq    _used_history;
 
 public:
@@ -50,8 +53,8 @@ public:
   void decrease_used(size_t size);
   void reset();
 
-  size_t used() const;
-  size_t capacity() const;
+  size_t tlab_used() const;
+  size_t tlab_capacity() const;
 };
 
 #endif // SHARE_GC_Z_ZTLABUSAGE_HPP