diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/controller/ControllerChannelManager.scala b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/controller/ControllerChannelManager.scala
index 6923d618e98c..f16fc44b3b33 100755
--- a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/controller/ControllerChannelManager.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/controller/ControllerChannelManager.scala
@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ class RequestSendThread(val controllerId: Int,
 
   private var firstUpdateMetadataWithPartitionsSent = false
 
+  private val maxRequestCountToMerge = 100
+
   @volatile private var latestRequestStatus = LatestRequestStatus(isInFlight = false, isInQueue = false, 0)
 
   // This metric reports the queued time of the latest request from the queue
@@ -358,10 +360,14 @@ class RequestSendThread(val controllerId: Int,
       // one concurrent access case considering the producer of the queue:
       // an item is put to the queue right after the condition check below.
       // That behavior does not change correctness since the inserted item will be picked up in the next round
-      while (!queue.isEmpty && shouldContinueMerging) {
+      // Fixme: tmp fix for incident-1517. We tried to merge limited amount of requests to a single LiCombinedControlRequest
+      //  so that a single request size is not larger than max limit which is 100MB.
+      var counter = maxRequestCountToMerge
+      while (!queue.isEmpty && shouldContinueMerging && maxRequestCountToMerge > 0) {
         // Continue merging if the item taken from the queue is a
         // control request and has set `shouldContinueMerging` to true
         shouldContinueMerging = takeFromQueueAndMerge().exists(_._2)
+        counter = counter - 1
       }
 
       val requestBuilder = controllerRequestMerger.pollLatestRequest()