SPARK-4230. Doc for spark.default.parallelism is incorrect

Author: Sandy Ryza <[email protected]>

Closes #3107 from sryza/sandy-spark-4230 and squashes the following commits:

37a1d19 [Sandy Ryza] Clear up a couple things
34d53de [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-4230. Doc for spark.default.parallelism is incorrect

Author: sryza

docs/configuration.md

@@ -562,15 +562,18 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
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   <td><code>spark.default.parallelism</code></td>
   <td>
+    For distributed shuffle operations like <code>reduceByKey</code> and <code>join</code>, the
+    largest number of partitions in a parent RDD.  For operations like <code>parallelize</code>
+    with no parent RDDs, it depends on the cluster manager:
     <ul>
       <li>Local mode: number of cores on the local machine</li>
       <li>Mesos fine grained mode: 8</li>
       <li>Others: total number of cores on all executor nodes or 2, whichever is larger</li>
     </ul>
   </td>
   <td>
-    Default number of tasks to use across the cluster for distributed shuffle operations
-    (<code>groupByKey</code>, <code>reduceByKey</code>, etc) when not set by user.
+    Default number of partitions in RDDs returned by transformations like <code>join</code>,
+    <code>reduceByKey</code>, and <code>parallelize</code> when not set by user.
   </td>
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