diff --git a/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go b/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
index f4921da0f..eb7ab3780 100644
--- a/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
+++ b/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ const (
 	gRPCBackOffMaxDelay  = 10 * time.Minute
 
 	// See: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/e030a0aae9622f3774df89c62f21b2171a72a69e/etc/config-template.toml#L360
-	regionMaxKeyCount      = 1_440_000
+	// lower the max-key-count to avoid tikv trigger region auto split
+	regionMaxKeyCount      = 1_280_000
 	defaultRegionSplitSize = 96 * units.MiB
 
 	propRangeIndex = "tikv.range_index"
@@ -782,7 +783,12 @@ func (local *local) WriteToTiKV(
 	size := int64(0)
 	totalCount := int64(0)
 	firstLoop := true
-	regionMaxSize := regionSplitSize * 4 / 3
+	// if region-split-size <= 96MiB, we bump the threshold a bit to avoid too many retry split
+	// because the range-properties is not 100% accurate
+	regionMaxSize := regionSplitSize
+	if regionSplitSize <= defaultRegionSplitSize {
+		regionMaxSize = regionSplitSize * 4 / 3
+	}
 
 	for iter.First(); iter.Valid(); iter.Next() {
 		size += int64(len(iter.Key()) + len(iter.Value()))
diff --git a/pkg/lightning/restore/table_restore.go b/pkg/lightning/restore/table_restore.go
index 8664943e7..a60d34dcf 100644
--- a/pkg/lightning/restore/table_restore.go
+++ b/pkg/lightning/restore/table_restore.go
@@ -998,8 +998,8 @@ func estimateCompactionThreshold(cp *checkpoints.TableCheckpoint, factor int64)
 	threshold := totalRawFileSize / 512
 	threshold = utils.NextPowerOfTwo(threshold)
 	if threshold < compactionLowerThreshold {
-		// disable compaction if threshold is smaller than lower bound
-		threshold = 0
+		// too may small SST files will cause inaccuracy of region range estimation,
+		threshold = compactionLowerThreshold
 	} else if threshold > compactionUpperThreshold {
 		threshold = compactionUpperThreshold
 	}