diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
index 0bc93657b4601e41b25790614c80573497fdc98c..280165581c57213bbf46fdf81cb2711142250060 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ int btrfs_find_space_cluster(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			last = entry;
 			max_extent = 0;
 			total_retries++;
-			if (total_retries % 256 == 0) {
+			if (total_retries % 64 == 0) {
 				if (min_bytes >= (bytes + empty_size)) {
 					ret = -ENOSPC;
 					goto out;