diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
index c2bd4f98a8376ecab82b99623ce2a9454ed148a9..212d668dabb382160ae04dfce3e6b1375b44832d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h
@@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ void igb_ptp_rx_pktstamp(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector, unsigned char *va,
 			 struct sk_buff *skb);
 int igb_ptp_set_ts_config(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr);
 int igb_ptp_get_ts_config(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr);
+void igb_set_flag_queue_pairs(struct igb_adapter *, const u32);
 #ifdef CONFIG_IGB_HWMON
 void igb_sysfs_exit(struct igb_adapter *adapter);
 int igb_sysfs_init(struct igb_adapter *adapter);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
index b7b9c670bb3c7e24db5ff9d8e3437af06c27d317..74262768b09b75bd7ad267afb67e720a617bce10 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
@@ -3008,6 +3008,7 @@ static int igb_set_channels(struct net_device *netdev,
 {
 	struct igb_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	unsigned int count = ch->combined_count;
+	unsigned int max_combined = 0;
 
 	/* Verify they are not requesting separate vectors */
 	if (!count || ch->rx_count || ch->tx_count)
@@ -3018,11 +3019,13 @@ static int igb_set_channels(struct net_device *netdev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Verify the number of channels doesn't exceed hw limits */
-	if (count > igb_max_channels(adapter))
+	max_combined = igb_max_channels(adapter);
+	if (count > max_combined)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (count != adapter->rss_queues) {
 		adapter->rss_queues = count;
+		igb_set_flag_queue_pairs(adapter, max_combined);
 
 		/* Hardware has to reinitialize queues and interrupts to
 		 * match the new configuration.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 41e27404689648a4bad220e174db32cdf1077580..7b97e847929060935ccd402f76e76177d69e6903 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -1205,10 +1205,14 @@ static int igb_alloc_q_vector(struct igb_adapter *adapter,
 
 	/* allocate q_vector and rings */
 	q_vector = adapter->q_vector[v_idx];
-	if (!q_vector)
+	if (!q_vector) {
 		q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	else
+	} else if (size > ksize(q_vector)) {
+		kfree_rcu(q_vector, rcu);
+		q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	} else {
 		memset(q_vector, 0, size);
+	}
 	if (!q_vector)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2888,6 +2892,14 @@ static void igb_init_queue_configuration(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
 
 	adapter->rss_queues = min_t(u32, max_rss_queues, num_online_cpus());
 
+	igb_set_flag_queue_pairs(adapter, max_rss_queues);
+}
+
+void igb_set_flag_queue_pairs(struct igb_adapter *adapter,
+			      const u32 max_rss_queues)
+{
+	struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
+
 	/* Determine if we need to pair queues. */
 	switch (hw->mac.type) {
 	case e1000_82575: