diff --git a/tokio/src/runtime/scheduler/multi_thread/worker.rs b/tokio/src/runtime/scheduler/multi_thread/worker.rs
index d91c641c4f3..4a09f4a743a 100644
--- a/tokio/src/runtime/scheduler/multi_thread/worker.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/runtime/scheduler/multi_thread/worker.rs
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ impl Context {
                 } else {
                     self.park(core)
                 };
+                core.stats.start_processing_scheduled_tasks();
             }
         }