diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index d8ca6d1794ef60d7f57a3cb3724de6fa26cedf3c..4941b692e9479bc7800e92f9bfb13baf3ff7d0d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
 /* Use the maximum between 16384 and a single page */
 #define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_SIZE	PAGE_ALIGN(16384)
 
-#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER	PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
+#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER min_t(int, get_order(32768),		\
+					 PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
 
 /* Receive fragment sizes; we use at most 3 fragments (for 9600 byte MTU
  * and 4K allocations) */