diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bee53495a829..cd5dc3faaa57 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1779,6 +1779,20 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
 	if (stat.nr_writeback && stat.nr_writeback == nr_taken)
 		set_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags);
 
+	/*
+	 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
+	 * implies that flushers are not doing their job. This can
+	 * happen when memory pressure pushes dirty pages to the end of
+	 * the LRU before the dirty limits are breached and the dirty
+	 * data has expired. It can also happen when the proportion of
+	 * dirty pages grows not through writes but through memory
+	 * pressure reclaiming all the clean cache. And in some cases,
+	 * the flushers simply cannot keep up with the allocation
+	 * rate. Nudge the flusher threads in case they are asleep.
+	 */
+	if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
+		wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
+
 	/*
 	 * Legacy memcg will stall in page writeback so avoid forcibly
 	 * stalling here.
@@ -1791,22 +1805,9 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
 		if (stat.nr_dirty && stat.nr_dirty == stat.nr_congested)
 			set_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags);
 
-		/*
-		 * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
-		 * implies that flushers are not doing their job. This can
-		 * happen when memory pressure pushes dirty pages to the end of
-		 * the LRU before the dirty limits are breached and the dirty
-		 * data has expired. It can also happen when the proportion of
-		 * dirty pages grows not through writes but through memory
-		 * pressure reclaiming all the clean cache. And in some cases,
-		 * the flushers simply cannot keep up with the allocation
-		 * rate. Nudge the flusher threads in case they are asleep, but
-		 * also allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim.
-		 */
-		if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken) {
-			wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
+		/* Allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim. */
+		if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
 			set_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
-		}
 
 		/*
 		 * If kswapd scans pages marked marked for immediate