diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
index c28003e1d2ee..471c48dd71e7 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
@@ -154,6 +154,43 @@ __cached_rbnode_delete_update(struct iova_domain *iovad, struct iova *free)
 		iovad->cached_node = rb_next(&free->node);
 }
 
+static struct rb_node *iova_find_limit(struct iova_domain *iovad, unsigned long limit_pfn)
+{
+	struct rb_node *node, *next;
+	/*
+	 * Ideally what we'd like to judge here is whether limit_pfn is close
+	 * enough to the highest-allocated IOVA that starting the allocation
+	 * walk from the anchor node will be quicker than this initial work to
+	 * find an exact starting point (especially if that ends up being the
+	 * anchor node anyway). This is an incredibly crude approximation which
+	 * only really helps the most likely case, but is at least trivially easy.
+	 */
+	if (limit_pfn > iovad->dma_32bit_pfn)
+		return &iovad->anchor.node;
+
+	node = iovad->rbroot.rb_node;
+	while (to_iova(node)->pfn_hi < limit_pfn)
+		node = node->rb_right;
+
+search_left:
+	while (node->rb_left && to_iova(node->rb_left)->pfn_lo >= limit_pfn)
+		node = node->rb_left;
+
+	if (!node->rb_left)
+		return node;
+
+	next = node->rb_left;
+	while (next->rb_right) {
+		next = next->rb_right;
+		if (to_iova(next)->pfn_lo >= limit_pfn) {
+			node = next;
+			goto search_left;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return node;
+}
+
 /* Insert the iova into domain rbtree by holding writer lock */
 static void
 iova_insert_rbtree(struct rb_root *root, struct iova *iova,
@@ -219,7 +256,7 @@ static int __alloc_and_insert_iova_range(struct iova_domain *iovad,
 		if (low_pfn == iovad->start_pfn && retry_pfn < limit_pfn) {
 			high_pfn = limit_pfn;
 			low_pfn = retry_pfn;
-			curr = &iovad->anchor.node;
+			curr = iova_find_limit(iovad, limit_pfn);
 			curr_iova = to_iova(curr);
 			goto retry;
 		}