diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
index 714459a8dc108e94a4fd38dc80ee070c6b2a24f7..7ea19fa6356160462260313a2d531f66b55ac22e 100644
--- a/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static const char *obj_states[ODEBUG_STATE_MAX] = {
 static void fill_pool(void)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
-	struct debug_obj *new, *obj;
+	struct debug_obj *obj;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (likely(obj_pool_free >= debug_objects_pool_min_level))
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static void fill_pool(void)
 		 * Recheck with the lock held as the worker thread might have
 		 * won the race and freed the global free list already.
 		 */
-		if (obj_nr_tofree) {
+		while (obj_nr_tofree && (obj_pool_free < obj_pool_min_free)) {
 			obj = hlist_entry(obj_to_free.first, typeof(*obj), node);
 			hlist_del(&obj->node);
 			obj_nr_tofree--;
@@ -150,15 +150,23 @@ static void fill_pool(void)
 		return;
 
 	while (obj_pool_free < debug_objects_pool_min_level) {
+		struct debug_obj *new[ODEBUG_BATCH_SIZE];
+		int cnt;
 
-		new = kmem_cache_zalloc(obj_cache, gfp);
-		if (!new)
+		for (cnt = 0; cnt < ODEBUG_BATCH_SIZE; cnt++) {
+			new[cnt] = kmem_cache_zalloc(obj_cache, gfp);
+			if (!new[cnt])
+				break;
+		}
+		if (!cnt)
 			return;
 
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pool_lock, flags);
-		hlist_add_head(&new->node, &obj_pool);
-		debug_objects_allocated++;
-		obj_pool_free++;
+		while (cnt) {
+			hlist_add_head(&new[--cnt]->node, &obj_pool);
+			debug_objects_allocated++;
+			obj_pool_free++;
+		}
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool_lock, flags);
 	}
 }
@@ -280,7 +288,7 @@ static void free_obj_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	/*
 	 * The objs on the pool list might be allocated before the work is
 	 * run, so recheck if pool list it full or not, if not fill pool
-	 * list from the global free list
+	 * list from the global free list.
 	 */
 	while (obj_nr_tofree && obj_pool_free < debug_objects_pool_size) {
 		obj = hlist_entry(obj_to_free.first, typeof(*obj), node);