diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
index 8e6276d864e6..89035ee01679 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
@@ -1271,13 +1271,13 @@ static int i40evf_set_interrupt_capability(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 	}
 	pairs = adapter->num_active_queues;
 
-	/* It's easy to be greedy for MSI-X vectors, but it really
-	 * doesn't do us much good if we have a lot more vectors
-	 * than CPU's.  So let's be conservative and only ask for
-	 * (roughly) twice the number of vectors as there are CPU's.
+	/* It's easy to be greedy for MSI-X vectors, but it really doesn't do
+	 * us much good if we have more vectors than CPUs. However, we already
+	 * limit the total number of queues by the number of CPUs so we do not
+	 * need any further limiting here.
 	 */
-	v_budget = min_t(int, pairs, (int)(num_online_cpus() * 2)) + NONQ_VECS;
-	v_budget = min_t(int, v_budget, (int)adapter->vf_res->max_vectors);
+	v_budget = min_t(int, pairs + NONQ_VECS,
+			 (int)adapter->vf_res->max_vectors);
 
 	adapter->msix_entries = kcalloc(v_budget,
 					sizeof(struct msix_entry), GFP_KERNEL);