diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b7e6b6f9c5f6..66b878e94554 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4348,6 +4348,25 @@ fail:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/* Migrate current task p to target_cpu */
+int migrate_task_to(struct task_struct *p, int target_cpu)
+{
+	struct migration_arg arg = { p, target_cpu };
+	int curr_cpu = task_cpu(p);
+
+	if (curr_cpu == target_cpu)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(target_cpu, tsk_cpus_allowed(p)))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* TODO: This is not properly updating schedstats */
+
+	return stop_one_cpu(curr_cpu, migration_cpu_stop, &arg);
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * migration_cpu_stop - this will be executed by a highprio stopper thread
  * and performs thread migration by bumping thread off CPU then
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 89431248d33d..8b15e9e1d1b8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -886,6 +886,31 @@ static unsigned int task_scan_max(struct task_struct *p)
  */
 unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count __read_mostly = 3;
 
+static unsigned long weighted_cpuload(const int cpu);
+
+
+static int
+find_idlest_cpu_node(int this_cpu, int nid)
+{
+	unsigned long load, min_load = ULONG_MAX;
+	int i, idlest_cpu = this_cpu;
+
+	BUG_ON(cpu_to_node(this_cpu) == nid);
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_cpu(i, cpumask_of_node(nid)) {
+		load = weighted_cpuload(i);
+
+		if (load < min_load) {
+			min_load = load;
+			idlest_cpu = i;
+		}
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return idlest_cpu;
+}
+
 static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	int seq, nid, max_nid = -1;
@@ -916,10 +941,29 @@ static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Update the tasks preferred node if necessary */
+	/*
+	 * Record the preferred node as the node with the most faults,
+	 * requeue the task to be running on the idlest CPU on the
+	 * preferred node and reset the scanning rate to recheck
+	 * the working set placement.
+	 */
 	if (max_faults && max_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid) {
+		int preferred_cpu;
+
+		/*
+		 * If the task is not on the preferred node then find the most
+		 * idle CPU to migrate to.
+		 */
+		preferred_cpu = task_cpu(p);
+		if (cpu_to_node(preferred_cpu) != max_nid) {
+			preferred_cpu = find_idlest_cpu_node(preferred_cpu,
+							     max_nid);
+		}
+
+		/* Update the preferred nid and migrate task if possible */
 		p->numa_preferred_nid = max_nid;
 		p->numa_migrate_seq = 0;
+		migrate_task_to(p, preferred_cpu);
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 199099c7aa22..66458c902d84 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ static inline u64 rq_clock_task(struct rq *rq)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+extern int migrate_task_to(struct task_struct *p, int cpu);
 static inline void task_numa_free(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	kfree(p->numa_faults);