diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 0211c93a0d74..77a999172ff2 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c82513e513556a04f81aa511cd890acd23349c48
+refs/heads/master: c22402a2f76e88b04b7a8b6c0597ad9ba6fd71de
diff --git a/trunk/kernel/sched/fair.c b/trunk/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 678966ca393b..968ffee24721 100644
--- a/trunk/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/trunk/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3781,7 +3781,8 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
 {
 	unsigned long load, max_cpu_load, min_cpu_load, max_nr_running;
 	int i;
-	unsigned int balance_cpu = -1, first_idle_cpu = 0;
+	unsigned int balance_cpu = -1;
+	unsigned long balance_load = ~0UL;
 	unsigned long avg_load_per_task = 0;
 
 	if (local_group)
@@ -3797,12 +3798,11 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
 
 		/* Bias balancing toward cpus of our domain */
 		if (local_group) {
-			if (idle_cpu(i) && !first_idle_cpu) {
-				first_idle_cpu = 1;
+			load = target_load(i, load_idx);
+			if (load < balance_load || idle_cpu(i)) {
+				balance_load = load;
 				balance_cpu = i;
 			}
-
-			load = target_load(i, load_idx);
 		} else {
 			load = source_load(i, load_idx);
 			if (load > max_cpu_load) {