diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7ce18f3..bcfe320 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1609,9 +1609,11 @@
 	/*
 	 * If there were no record hinting faults then either the task is
 	 * completely idle or all activity is areas that are not of interest
-	 * to automatic numa balancing. Scan slower
+	 * to automatic numa balancing. Related to that, if there were failed
+	 * migration then it implies we are migrating too quickly or the local
+	 * node is overloaded. In either case, scan slower
 	 */
-	if (local + shared == 0) {
+	if (local + shared == 0 || p->numa_faults_locality[2]) {
 		p->numa_scan_period = min(p->numa_scan_period_max,
 			p->numa_scan_period << 1);
 
@@ -2080,6 +2082,8 @@
 
 	if (migrated)
 		p->numa_pages_migrated += pages;
+	if (flags & TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL)
+		p->numa_faults_locality[2] += pages;
 
 	p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(NUMA_MEMBUF, mem_node, priv)] += pages;
 	p->numa_faults[task_faults_idx(NUMA_CPUBUF, cpu_node, priv)] += pages;