diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 9a58874ef104..4e586863827b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5512,28 +5512,27 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
                        list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
 	}
 
+	/* At this point se is NULL and we are at root level*/
+	add_nr_running(rq, 1);
+
+	/*
+	 * Since new tasks are assigned an initial util_avg equal to
+	 * half of the spare capacity of their CPU, tiny tasks have the
+	 * ability to cross the overutilized threshold, which will
+	 * result in the load balancer ruining all the task placement
+	 * done by EAS. As a way to mitigate that effect, do not account
+	 * for the first enqueue operation of new tasks during the
+	 * overutilized flag detection.
+	 *
+	 * A better way of solving this problem would be to wait for
+	 * the PELT signals of tasks to converge before taking them
+	 * into account, but that is not straightforward to implement,
+	 * and the following generally works well enough in practice.
+	 */
+	if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP)
+		update_overutilized_status(rq);
+
 enqueue_throttle:
-	if (!se) {
-		add_nr_running(rq, 1);
-		/*
-		 * Since new tasks are assigned an initial util_avg equal to
-		 * half of the spare capacity of their CPU, tiny tasks have the
-		 * ability to cross the overutilized threshold, which will
-		 * result in the load balancer ruining all the task placement
-		 * done by EAS. As a way to mitigate that effect, do not account
-		 * for the first enqueue operation of new tasks during the
-		 * overutilized flag detection.
-		 *
-		 * A better way of solving this problem would be to wait for
-		 * the PELT signals of tasks to converge before taking them
-		 * into account, but that is not straightforward to implement,
-		 * and the following generally works well enough in practice.
-		 */
-		if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP)
-			update_overutilized_status(rq);
-
-	}
-
 	if (cfs_bandwidth_used()) {
 		/*
 		 * When bandwidth control is enabled; the cfs_rq_throttled()