diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a1c2f78cb78c..07a68dcd5f58 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2747,16 +2747,15 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 				   sc->nr_reclaimed - reclaimed);
 
 			/*
-			 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
-			 * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
-			 * node.
+			 * Kswapd have to scan all memory cgroups to fulfill
+			 * the overall scan target for the node.
 			 *
 			 * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
 			 * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
 			 * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
 			 * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
 			 */
-			if (!global_reclaim(sc) &&
+			if (!current_is_kswapd() &&
 					sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) {
 				mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg);
 				break;