diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index cf824e2a6b38..0b9435b4f57c 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1275,6 +1275,14 @@ static struct shrinker *zswap_alloc_shrinker(void)
 	return shrinker;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Scan up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages on each per-node zswap LRU of @memcg
+ * and write back the reclaimable ones.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 if at least one entry was written back, -EAGAIN if entries
+ * were scanned but none could be written back, or -ENOENT if @memcg has
+ * writeback disabled, is a zombie cgroup, or has empty zswap LRUs.
+ */
 static int shrink_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	int nid, shrunk = 0, scanned = 0;
@@ -1290,13 +1298,14 @@ static int shrink_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	for_each_node_state(nid, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
-		unsigned long nr_to_walk = 1;
+		unsigned long nr_to_walk = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
 
 		shrunk += list_lru_walk_one(&zswap_list_lru, nid, memcg,
 					    &shrink_memcg_cb, NULL, &nr_to_walk);
-		scanned += 1 - nr_to_walk;
+		scanned += SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX - nr_to_walk;
 	}
 
+	/* Nothing was scanned: every LRU under @memcg was empty. */
 	if (!scanned)
 		return -ENOENT;