diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8d5868771cb3..9dd2ce1e5ca2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5435,7 +5435,7 @@ wake_affine_llc(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
 		return false;
 
 	/* if this cache has capacity, come here */
-	if (this_stats.has_capacity && this_stats.nr_running < prev_stats.nr_running+1)
+	if (this_stats.has_capacity && this_stats.nr_running+1 < prev_stats.nr_running)
 		return true;
 
 	/*