diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 47d35bef9f6e..c4c5b652d3af 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -1023,6 +1023,8 @@ static inline unsigned long lruvec_page_state_local(struct lruvec *lruvec,
 	return x;
 }
 
+void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void);
+
 void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
 			      int val);
 void __mod_lruvec_kmem_state(void *p, enum node_stat_item idx, int val);
@@ -1438,6 +1440,10 @@ static inline unsigned long lruvec_page_state_local(struct lruvec *lruvec,
 	return node_page_state(lruvec_pgdat(lruvec), idx);
 }
 
+static inline void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec,
 					    enum node_stat_item idx, int val)
 {
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 400d210e030a..4d8c9afecf98 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ static bool do_memsw_account(void)
 	return !cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !cgroup_memory_noswap;
 }
 
+/* memcg and lruvec stats flushing */
+static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w);
+static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(stats_flush_dwork, flush_memcg_stats_dwork);
+static void flush_memcg_stats_work(struct work_struct *w);
+static DECLARE_WORK(stats_flush_work, flush_memcg_stats_work);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, stats_flush_threshold);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(stats_flush_lock);
+
 #define THRESHOLDS_EVENTS_TARGET 128
 #define SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_TARGET 1024
 
@@ -674,6 +682,8 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
 
 	/* Update lruvec */
 	__this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stats_percpu->state[idx], val);
+	if (!(__this_cpu_inc_return(stats_flush_threshold) % MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH))
+		queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_work);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -5240,6 +5250,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	/* Online state pins memcg ID, memcg ID pins CSS */
 	refcount_set(&memcg->id.ref, 1);
 	css_get(css);
+
+	if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)))
+		queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_dwork,
+				   2UL*HZ);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -5331,6 +5345,26 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
 }
 
+void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
+{
+	if (!spin_trylock(&stats_flush_lock))
+		return;
+
+	cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe(root_mem_cgroup->css.cgroup);
+	spin_unlock(&stats_flush_lock);
+}
+
+static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
+{
+	mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
+	queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_dwork, 2UL*HZ);
+}
+
+static void flush_memcg_stats_work(struct work_struct *w)
+{
+	mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
+}
+
 static void mem_cgroup_css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 268ad6570751..6c401b44a245 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2897,6 +2897,12 @@ static void shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 	target_lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(sc->target_mem_cgroup, pgdat);
 
 again:
+	/*
+	 * Flush the memory cgroup stats, so that we read accurate per-memcg
+	 * lruvec stats for heuristics.
+	 */
+	mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
+
 	memset(&sc->nr, 0, sizeof(sc->nr));
 
 	nr_reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;