diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs_dev.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs_dev.c
index a3b28409539a..e8143977965c 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pnfs_dev.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs_dev.c
@@ -40,8 +40,11 @@
 
 /*
  * Device ID RCU cache. A device ID is unique per server and layout type.
+ *
+ * 256 buckets keeps the chains short at the 1024-or-more devices a
+ * striping deployment expects, for 2KB of BSS on 64-bit.
  */
-#define NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_BITS	5
+#define NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_BITS	8
 #define NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_SIZE	(1 << NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_BITS)
 #define NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_MASK	(NFS4_DEVICE_ID_HASH_SIZE - 1)