diff --git a/module/zfs/zio.c b/module/zfs/zio.c
index 5cc9ab7901d2..d7e2f2adbfa5 100644
--- a/module/zfs/zio.c
+++ b/module/zfs/zio.c
@@ -1687,7 +1687,8 @@ zio_get_compression_max_size(uint64_t gcd_alloc, uint64_t min_alloc,
 
 	d_len = d_len - d_len % gcd_alloc;
 	if (d_len < min_alloc)
-		return (BPE_PAYLOAD_SIZE);
+		/* Add n bytes for ZLE or will fail fast earlier */
+		return (BPE_PAYLOAD_SIZE + 64);
 	return (d_len);
 }