diff --git a/block/linux-aio.c b/block/linux-aio.c
index c7eca9a256c1952b731b97073c718625fbe9d65e..91204a25a2b42a9aa0f2e0e116ae144ce2d66a9b 100644
--- a/block/linux-aio.c
+++ b/block/linux-aio.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
  *      than this we will get EAGAIN from io_submit which is communicated to
  *      the guest as an I/O error.
  */
-#define MAX_EVENTS 128
+#define MAX_EVENTS 1024
 
 struct qemu_laiocb {
     Coroutine *co;