diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 4c400d79f1e5..db45b3554682 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5700,9 +5700,15 @@ wake_affine_idle(int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
 	 * 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 the prev_cpu is idle and cache affine then avoid a migration.
+	 * There is no guarantee that the cache hot data from an interrupt
+	 * is more important than cache hot data on the prev_cpu and from
+	 * a cpufreq perspective, it's better to have higher utilisation
+	 * on one CPU.
 	 */
 	if (idle_cpu(this_cpu) && cpus_share_cache(this_cpu, prev_cpu))
-		return this_cpu;
+		return idle_cpu(prev_cpu) ? prev_cpu : this_cpu;
 
 	if (sync && cpu_rq(this_cpu)->nr_running == 1)
 		return this_cpu;