diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e6c6729c7da1..23c9e8be90f1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -11209,13 +11209,16 @@ static inline bool nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, bool only_update)
 	if (time_before(now, nohz.next_balance))
 		return false;
 
+	/*
+	 * If energy aware is enabled, do idle load balance if runqueue has
+	 * at least 2 tasks and cpu is overutilized
+	 */
 	if (rq->nr_running >= 2 &&
 	    (!energy_aware() || cpu_overutilized(cpu)))
 		return true;
 
-	/* Do idle load balance if there have misfit task */
 	if (energy_aware())
-		return rq_has_misfit(rq);
+		return false;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	sds = rcu_dereference(per_cpu(sd_llc_shared, cpu));