diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 73884953b21ccd4e75017228b4125cb2327a59c9..bc7e7d5b8c9753916f2291436a3b7fa184a4292a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -325,9 +325,11 @@ xfs_check_block(
 
 /*
  * Check that the extents for the inode ip are in the right order in all
- * btree leaves.
+ * btree leaves. THis becomes prohibitively expensive for large extent count
+ * files, so don't bother with inodes that have more than 10,000 extents in
+ * them. The btree record ordering checks will still be done, so for such large
+ * bmapbt constructs that is going to catch most corruptions.
  */
-
 STATIC void
 xfs_bmap_check_leaf_extents(
 	xfs_btree_cur_t		*cur,	/* btree cursor or null */
@@ -352,6 +354,10 @@ xfs_bmap_check_leaf_extents(
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/* skip large extent count inodes */
+	if (ip->i_d.di_nextents > 10000)
+		return;
+
 	bno = NULLFSBLOCK;
 	mp = ip->i_mount;
 	ifp = XFS_IFORK_PTR(ip, whichfork);