diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 8cd7e5f..d48bca4 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@
 feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting
 faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms,
 numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_reset,
-numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms and numa_balancing_scan_size_mb sysctls.
+numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms, numa_balancing_scan_size_mb and
+numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls.
 
 ==============================================================
 
@@ -420,6 +421,11 @@
 numa_balancing_scan_period_reset is a blunt instrument that controls how
 often a tasks scan delay is reset to detect sudden changes in task behaviour.
 
+numa_balancing_settle_count is how many scan periods must complete before
+the schedule balancer stops pushing the task towards a preferred node. This
+gives the scheduler a chance to place the task on an alternative node if the
+preferred node is overloaded.
+
 ==============================================================
 
 osrelease, ostype & version:
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a463bc3..aecdc5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@
 #define SD_ASYM_PACKING		0x0800  /* Place busy groups earlier in the domain */
 #define SD_PREFER_SIBLING	0x1000	/* Prefer to place tasks in a sibling domain */
 #define SD_OVERLAP		0x2000	/* sched_domains of this level overlap */
+#define SD_NUMA			0x4000	/* cross-node balancing */
 
 extern int __weak arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing(void);
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 064a0af..b7e6b6f9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@
 
 	p->node_stamp = 0ULL;
 	p->numa_scan_seq = p->mm ? p->mm->numa_scan_seq : 0;
-	p->numa_migrate_seq = p->mm ? p->mm->numa_scan_seq - 1 : 0;
+	p->numa_migrate_seq = 0;
 	p->numa_scan_period = sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay;
 	p->numa_preferred_nid = -1;
 	p->numa_work.next = &p->numa_work;
@@ -5656,6 +5656,7 @@
 					| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
 					| 1*SD_SERIALIZE
 					| 0*SD_PREFER_SIBLING
+					| 1*SD_NUMA
 					| sd_local_flags(level)
 					,
 		.last_balance		= jiffies,
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 3abc651..6ffddca 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -877,6 +877,15 @@
 	return max(smin, smax);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Once a preferred node is selected the scheduler balancer will prefer moving
+ * a task to that node for sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count number of PTE
+ * scans. This will give the process the chance to accumulate more faults on
+ * the preferred node but still allow the scheduler to move the task again if
+ * the nodes CPUs are overloaded.
+ */
+unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count __read_mostly = 3;
+
 static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	int seq, nid, max_nid = -1;
@@ -888,6 +897,7 @@
 	if (p->numa_scan_seq == seq)
 		return;
 	p->numa_scan_seq = seq;
+	p->numa_migrate_seq++;
 	p->numa_scan_period_max = task_scan_max(p);
 
 	/* Find the node with the highest number of faults */
@@ -907,8 +917,10 @@
 	}
 
 	/* Update the tasks preferred node if necessary */
-	if (max_faults && max_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid)
+	if (max_faults && max_nid != p->numa_preferred_nid) {
 		p->numa_preferred_nid = max_nid;
+		p->numa_migrate_seq = 0;
+	}
 }
 
 /*
@@ -4071,6 +4083,38 @@
 	return delta < (s64)sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/* Returns true if the destination node has incurred more faults */
+static bool migrate_improves_locality(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
+{
+	int src_nid, dst_nid;
+
+	if (!sched_feat(NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER) || !p->numa_faults ||
+	    !(env->sd->flags & SD_NUMA)) {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	src_nid = cpu_to_node(env->src_cpu);
+	dst_nid = cpu_to_node(env->dst_cpu);
+
+	if (src_nid == dst_nid ||
+	    p->numa_migrate_seq >= sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count)
+		return false;
+
+	if (dst_nid == p->numa_preferred_nid ||
+	    p->numa_faults[dst_nid] > p->numa_faults[src_nid])
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool migrate_improves_locality(struct task_struct *p,
+					     struct lb_env *env)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * can_migrate_task - may task p from runqueue rq be migrated to this_cpu?
  */
@@ -4128,11 +4172,22 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * Aggressive migration if:
-	 * 1) task is cache cold, or
-	 * 2) too many balance attempts have failed.
+	 * 1) destination numa is preferred
+	 * 2) task is cache cold, or
+	 * 3) too many balance attempts have failed.
 	 */
-
 	tsk_cache_hot = task_hot(p, rq_clock_task(env->src_rq), env->sd);
+
+	if (migrate_improves_locality(p, env)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
+		if (tsk_cache_hot) {
+			schedstat_inc(env->sd, lb_hot_gained[env->idle]);
+			schedstat_inc(p, se.statistics.nr_forced_migrations);
+		}
+#endif
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	if (!tsk_cache_hot ||
 		env->sd->nr_balance_failed > env->sd->cache_nice_tries) {
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
index cba5c61..d9278ce 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
@@ -67,4 +67,11 @@
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 SCHED_FEAT(NUMA,	false)
+
+/*
+ * NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER will favor moving tasks towards nodes where a
+ * higher number of hinting faults are recorded during active load
+ * balancing.
+ */
+SCHED_FEAT(NUMA_FAVOUR_HIGHER, true)
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b2f06f3..42f616a 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -391,6 +391,13 @@
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname       = "numa_balancing_settle_count",
+		.data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count,
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.mode           = 0644,
+		.proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
+	},
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */
 	{