diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 86fc36069f38..3ccd35c22f0f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -320,21 +320,6 @@ struct dl_bw {
 	u64			total_bw;
 };
 
-/*
- * Verify the fitness of task @p to run on @cpu taking into account the
- * CPU original capacity and the runtime/deadline ratio of the task.
- *
- * The function will return true if the CPU original capacity of the
- * @cpu scaled by SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE >= runtime/deadline ratio of the
- * task and false otherwise.
- */
-static inline bool dl_task_fits_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
-{
-	unsigned long cap = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu);
-
-	return cap_scale(p->dl.dl_deadline, cap) >= p->dl.dl_runtime;
-}
-
 extern void init_dl_bw(struct dl_bw *dl_b);
 extern int  sched_dl_global_validate(void);
 extern void sched_dl_do_global(void);
@@ -2899,6 +2884,21 @@ unsigned long effective_cpu_util(int cpu, unsigned long util_cfs,
 				 enum cpu_util_type type,
 				 struct task_struct *p);
 
+/*
+ * Verify the fitness of task @p to run on @cpu taking into account the
+ * CPU original capacity and the runtime/deadline ratio of the task.
+ *
+ * The function will return true if the original capacity of @cpu is
+ * greater than or equal to task's deadline density right shifted by
+ * (BW_SHIFT - SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT) and false otherwise.
+ */
+static inline bool dl_task_fits_capacity(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
+{
+	unsigned long cap = arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu);
+
+	return cap >= p->dl.dl_density >> (BW_SHIFT - SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT);
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long cpu_bw_dl(struct rq *rq)
 {
 	return (rq->dl.running_bw * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE) >> BW_SHIFT;