diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 8040fc14fd15..acc816b67582 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -1897,6 +1897,8 @@ int nvme_init_identify(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 		ctrl->cntlid = le16_to_cpu(id->cntlid);
 		ctrl->hmpre = le32_to_cpu(id->hmpre);
 		ctrl->hmmin = le32_to_cpu(id->hmmin);
+		ctrl->hmminds = le32_to_cpu(id->hmminds);
+		ctrl->hmmaxd = le16_to_cpu(id->hmmaxd);
 	}
 
 	kfree(id);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index b8ba7c85e61b..d3f3c4447515 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -181,8 +181,11 @@ struct nvme_ctrl {
 	u64 ps_max_latency_us;
 	bool apst_enabled;
 
+	/* PCIe only: */
 	u32 hmpre;
 	u32 hmmin;
+	u32 hmminds;
+	u16 hmmaxd;
 
 	/* Fabrics only */
 	u16 sqsize;
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 5ed12fbfaad6..4a2121335f48 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1625,6 +1625,10 @@ static int __nvme_alloc_host_mem(struct nvme_dev *dev, u64 preferred,
 	tmp = (preferred + chunk_size - 1);
 	do_div(tmp, chunk_size);
 	max_entries = tmp;
+
+	if (dev->ctrl.hmmaxd && dev->ctrl.hmmaxd < max_entries)
+		max_entries = dev->ctrl.hmmaxd;
+
 	descs = dma_zalloc_coherent(dev->dev, max_entries * sizeof(*descs),
 			&descs_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!descs)
@@ -1681,7 +1685,7 @@ static int nvme_alloc_host_mem(struct nvme_dev *dev, u64 min, u64 preferred)
 
 	/* start big and work our way down */
 	for (chunk_size = min_t(u64, preferred, PAGE_SIZE * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
-	     chunk_size >= PAGE_SIZE * 2;
+	     chunk_size >= max_t(u32, dev->ctrl.hmminds * 4096, PAGE_SIZE * 2);
 	     chunk_size /= 2) {
 		if (!__nvme_alloc_host_mem(dev, preferred, chunk_size)) {
 			if (!min || dev->host_mem_size >= min)
diff --git a/include/linux/nvme.h b/include/linux/nvme.h
index 5144f9103723..87723c86f136 100644
--- a/include/linux/nvme.h
+++ b/include/linux/nvme.h
@@ -226,7 +226,9 @@ struct nvme_id_ctrl {
 	__le16			mntmt;
 	__le16			mxtmt;
 	__le32			sanicap;
-	__u8			rsvd332[180];
+	__le32			hmminds;
+	__le16			hmmaxd;
+	__u8			rsvd338[174];
 	__u8			sqes;
 	__u8			cqes;
 	__le16			maxcmd;