diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b0ab56b4db0..2767c3dbf99 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ and this project adheres to
 
 ### Changed
 
-- [#4875](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/4875):
-  Increase default queue size for the `virtio-net` device from 256 to 512. This
-  decreases wait time between guest and vmm threads for network packets
-  processing and allows for more throughput.
 - [#4844](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/4844): Upgrade
   `virtio-net` device to use `readv` syscall to avoid unnecessary memory copies
   on RX path, increasing the RX performance.
diff --git a/src/vmm/src/devices/virtio/net/mod.rs b/src/vmm/src/devices/virtio/net/mod.rs
index 197f2069d47..4bc5b896601 100644
--- a/src/vmm/src/devices/virtio/net/mod.rs
+++ b/src/vmm/src/devices/virtio/net/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 use std::io;
 
 /// Maximum size of the queue for network device.
-pub const NET_QUEUE_MAX_SIZE: u16 = 512;
+pub const NET_QUEUE_MAX_SIZE: u16 = 256;
 /// Maximum size of the frame buffers handled by this device.
 pub const MAX_BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 65562;
 /// The number of queues of the network device.