diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
index 3f767cde4c1d50cbcd50d2eb670164fc20802983..54f1a40a68edde54149cfa1edb46c32bd3f8d1b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c
@@ -511,14 +511,14 @@ void mlx5_init_clock(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev)
 			 ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_real()));
 
 	/* Calculate period in seconds to call the overflow watchdog - to make
-	 * sure counter is checked at least once every wrap around.
+	 * sure counter is checked at least twice every wrap around.
 	 * The period is calculated as the minimum between max HW cycles count
 	 * (The clock source mask) and max amount of cycles that can be
 	 * multiplied by clock multiplier where the result doesn't exceed
 	 * 64bits.
 	 */
 	overflow_cycles = div64_u64(~0ULL >> 1, clock->cycles.mult);
-	overflow_cycles = min(overflow_cycles, clock->cycles.mask >> 1);
+	overflow_cycles = min(overflow_cycles, div_u64(clock->cycles.mask, 3));
 
 	ns = cyclecounter_cyc2ns(&clock->cycles, overflow_cycles,
 				 frac, &frac);