diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 59e66a5848d0..9fec992410f7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5687,8 +5687,8 @@ static int wake_wide(struct task_struct *p)
  * soonest. For the purpose of speed we only consider the waking and previous
  * CPU.
  *
- * wake_affine_idle() - only considers 'now', it check if the waking CPU is (or
- *			will be) idle.
+ * wake_affine_idle() - only considers 'now', it check if the waking CPU is
+ *			cache-affine and is (or	will be) idle.
  *
  * wake_affine_weight() - considers the weight to reflect the average
  *			  scheduling latency of the CPUs. This seems to work
@@ -5699,7 +5699,13 @@ static bool
 wake_affine_idle(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
 		 int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
 {
-	if (idle_cpu(this_cpu))
+	/*
+	 * If this_cpu is idle, it implies the wakeup is from interrupt
+	 * context. Only allow the move if cache is shared. Otherwise an
+	 * interrupt intensive workload could force all tasks onto one
+	 * node depending on the IO topology or IRQ affinity settings.
+	 */
+	if (idle_cpu(this_cpu) && cpus_share_cache(this_cpu, prev_cpu))
 		return true;
 
 	if (sync && cpu_rq(this_cpu)->nr_running == 1)