diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 383bc8a5cb6c..67f7c698ade3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
  * avoid hitting limitations of the backreference walking code (taking a lot of
  * time and using too much memory for extents with large number of references).
  */
-#define SEND_MAX_EXTENT_REFS	64
+#define SEND_MAX_EXTENT_REFS	1024
 
 /*
  * A fs_path is a helper to dynamically build path names with unknown size.