diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 10a5a286d8e2..dfdcbfde2c5b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6436,13 +6436,14 @@ static struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(struct lb_env *env)
 
 	if (env->idle == CPU_IDLE) {
 		/*
-		 * This cpu is idle. If the busiest group load doesn't
-		 * have more tasks than the number of available cpu's and
-		 * there is no imbalance between this and busiest group
-		 * wrt to idle cpu's, it is balanced.
+		 * This cpu is idle. If the busiest group is not overloaded
+		 * and there is no imbalance between this and busiest group
+		 * wrt idle cpus, it is balanced. The imbalance becomes
+		 * significant if the diff is greater than 1 otherwise we
+		 * might end up to just move the imbalance on another group
 		 */
-		if ((local->idle_cpus < busiest->idle_cpus) &&
-		    busiest->sum_nr_running <= busiest->group_weight)
+		if ((busiest->group_type != group_overloaded) &&
+				(local->idle_cpus <= (busiest->idle_cpus + 1)))
 			goto out_balanced;
 	} else {
 		/*