diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 748cb054fefd..e497c05aab7f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5385,6 +5385,14 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
 	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
 
+	/*
+	 * The code below (indirectly) updates schedutil which looks at
+	 * the cfs_rq utilization to select a frequency.
+	 * Let's add the task's estimated utilization to the cfs_rq's
+	 * estimated utilization, before we update schedutil.
+	 */
+	util_est_enqueue(&rq->cfs, p);
+
 	/*
 	 * If in_iowait is set, the code below may not trigger any cpufreq
 	 * utilization updates, so do it here explicitly with the IOWAIT flag
@@ -5426,7 +5434,6 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 	if (!se)
 		add_nr_running(rq, 1);
 
-	util_est_enqueue(&rq->cfs, p);
 	hrtick_update(rq);
 }