diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index f195e079660f6cb51cd649bf2931e8b9ab1ed707..265ddc6f0134e7de5e635f557991839e6a22520e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -230,15 +230,15 @@ endif
 # Try different combinations to accommodate systems that only have
 # python[2][3]-config in weird combinations in the following order of
 # priority from lowest to highest:
-#   * python3-config
-#   * python-config
 #   * python2-config as per pep-0394.
+#   * python-config
+#   * python3-config
 #   * $(PYTHON)-config (If PYTHON is user supplied but PYTHON_CONFIG isn't)
 #
 PYTHON_AUTO := python-config
-PYTHON_AUTO := $(if $(call get-executable,python3-config),python3-config,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
-PYTHON_AUTO := $(if $(call get-executable,python-config),python-config,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
 PYTHON_AUTO := $(if $(call get-executable,python2-config),python2-config,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
+PYTHON_AUTO := $(if $(call get-executable,python-config),python-config,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
+PYTHON_AUTO := $(if $(call get-executable,python3-config),python3-config,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
 
 # If PYTHON is defined but PYTHON_CONFIG isn't, then take $(PYTHON)-config as if it was the user
 # supplied value for PYTHON_CONFIG. Because it's "user supplied", error out if it doesn't exist.