diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
index 95253ad792b0..fb11091129b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
@@ -11,21 +11,20 @@
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
-#define SD_LOAD_BALANCE		0x0001	/* Do load balancing on this domain. */
-#define SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	0x0002	/* Balance when about to become idle */
-#define SD_BALANCE_EXEC		0x0004	/* Balance on exec */
-#define SD_BALANCE_FORK		0x0008	/* Balance on fork, clone */
-#define SD_BALANCE_WAKE		0x0010  /* Balance on wakeup */
-#define SD_WAKE_AFFINE		0x0020	/* Wake task to waking CPU */
-#define SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY	0x0040  /* Domain members have different CPU capacities */
-#define SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY	0x0080	/* Domain members share CPU capacity */
-#define SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN	0x0100	/* Domain members share power domain */
-#define SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES	0x0200	/* Domain members share CPU pkg resources */
-#define SD_SERIALIZE		0x0400	/* Only a single load balancing instance */
-#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 */
+#define SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	0x0001	/* Balance when about to become idle */
+#define SD_BALANCE_EXEC		0x0002	/* Balance on exec */
+#define SD_BALANCE_FORK		0x0004	/* Balance on fork, clone */
+#define SD_BALANCE_WAKE		0x0008  /* Balance on wakeup */
+#define SD_WAKE_AFFINE		0x0010	/* Wake task to waking CPU */
+#define SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY	0x0020  /* Domain members have different CPU capacities */
+#define SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY	0x0040	/* Domain members share CPU capacity */
+#define SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN	0x0080	/* Domain members share power domain */
+#define SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES	0x0100	/* Domain members share CPU pkg resources */
+#define SD_SERIALIZE		0x0200	/* Only a single load balancing instance */
+#define SD_ASYM_PACKING		0x0400  /* Place busy groups earlier in the domain */
+#define SD_PREFER_SIBLING	0x0800	/* Prefer to place tasks in a sibling domain */
+#define SD_OVERLAP		0x1000	/* sched_domains of this level overlap */
+#define SD_NUMA			0x2000	/* cross-node balancing */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
 static inline int cpu_smt_flags(void)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index a9dc34a0ebc1..1d7b446fac7d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1341,8 +1341,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
 
 		.cache_nice_tries	= 0,
 
-		.flags			= 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE
-					| 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
+		.flags			= 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
 					| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC
 					| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK
 					| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE