diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist.go b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist.go
index 6b9784bc9e03..8b4a3c0c1872 100644
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist.go
+++ b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist.go
@@ -491,6 +491,30 @@ func (p *replicationFlowPlanner) getSrcTenantID() (roachpb.TenantID, error) {
 	return p.srcTenantID, nil
 }
 
+func repartitionTopology(in streamclient.Topology, targetPartCount int) streamclient.Topology {
+	growth := targetPartCount / len(in.Partitions)
+	if growth <= 1 {
+		return in
+	}
+
+	// Copy the topology and allocate a new partition slice.
+	out := in
+	out.Partitions = make([]streamclient.PartitionInfo, 0, targetPartCount)
+	// For each partition in the input, put some number of copies of it into the
+	// output each containing some fraction of its spans.
+	for _, p := range in.Partitions {
+		chunk := len(p.Spans)/growth + 1
+		for len(p.Spans) > 0 {
+			c := p
+			c.Spans = p.Spans[:min(chunk, len(p.Spans))]
+			out.Partitions = append(out.Partitions, c)
+			p.Spans = p.Spans[len(c.Spans):]
+		}
+	}
+
+	return out
+}
+
 func (p *replicationFlowPlanner) constructPlanGenerator(
 	execCtx sql.JobExecContext,
 	ingestionJobID jobspb.JobID,
@@ -515,12 +539,18 @@ func (p *replicationFlowPlanner) constructPlanGenerator(
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, err
 		}
+
+		// If we have fewer partitions than we have nodes, try to repartition the
+		// topology to have more partitions.
+		topology = repartitionTopology(topology, len(sqlInstanceIDs)*8)
+
 		if !p.createdInitialPlan() {
 			p.initialTopology = topology
 			p.initialStreamAddresses = topology.StreamAddresses()
 			p.initialDestinationNodes = sqlInstanceIDs
 
 		}
+
 		destNodeLocalities, err := GetDestNodeLocalities(ctx, dsp, sqlInstanceIDs)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist_test.go b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist_test.go
index 4ebc5950efc2..767b2d4b8968 100644
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist_test.go
+++ b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/physical/stream_ingestion_dist_test.go
@@ -522,3 +522,41 @@ func TestParallelInitialSplits(t *testing.T) {
 		require.Equal(t, sp.Key.String(), ts.mu.scatters[i].String())
 	}
 }
+
+func TestRepartition(t *testing.T) {
+	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
+
+	p := func(node, parts, start int) streamclient.PartitionInfo {
+		spans := make([]roachpb.Span, parts)
+		for i := range spans {
+			spans[i].Key = roachpb.Key(fmt.Sprintf("n%d-%d-a", node, i+start))
+			spans[i].EndKey = roachpb.Key(fmt.Sprintf("n%d-%d-b", node, i+start))
+		}
+		return streamclient.PartitionInfo{SrcInstanceID: node, Spans: spans}
+	}
+	for _, parts := range []int{1, 4, 100} {
+		for _, input := range [][]streamclient.PartitionInfo{
+			{p(1, 43, 0), p(2, 44, 0), p(3, 41, 0)},
+			{p(1, 1, 0), p(2, 1, 0), p(3, 1, 0)},
+			{p(1, 43, 0), p(2, 44, 0), p(3, 38, 0)},
+		} {
+			got := repartitionTopology(streamclient.Topology{Partitions: input}, parts)
+
+			var expectedSpans, gotSpans roachpb.Spans
+			for _, part := range input {
+				expectedSpans = append(expectedSpans, part.Spans...)
+			}
+			for _, part := range got.Partitions {
+				gotSpans = append(gotSpans, part.Spans...)
+			}
+			require.LessOrEqual(t, min(parts, len(input)), len(got.Partitions))
+			require.GreaterOrEqual(t, max(parts, len(input)), len(got.Partitions))
+
+			// Regardless of how we partitioned, make sure we have all the spans.
+			sort.Sort(expectedSpans)
+			sort.Sort(gotSpans)
+			require.Equal(t, len(expectedSpans), len(gotSpans))
+			require.Equal(t, expectedSpans, gotSpans)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/BUILD.bazel b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/BUILD.bazel
index 5c79228cd568..c35f1ce72166 100644
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/BUILD.bazel
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ go_test(
         "replication_manager_test.go",
         "replication_stream_test.go",
         "stream_event_batcher_test.go",
-        "stream_lifetime_test.go",
     ],
     embed = [":producer"],
     deps = [
diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/replication_manager.go b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/replication_manager.go
index a6fafce97383..418c6e1cb6d8 100644
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/replication_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/replication_manager.go
@@ -190,13 +190,6 @@ var useStreaksInLDR = settings.RegisterBoolSetting(
 	false,
 )
 
-var ldrProcCount = settings.RegisterIntSetting(
-	settings.ApplicationLevel,
-	"logical_replication.producer.ingest_processor_parallelism",
-	"target number of stream partitions per source node",
-	1,
-)
-
 func (r *replicationStreamManagerImpl) PlanLogicalReplication(
 	ctx context.Context, req streampb.LogicalReplicationPlanRequest,
 ) (*streampb.ReplicationStreamSpec, error) {
@@ -225,8 +218,7 @@ func (r *replicationStreamManagerImpl) PlanLogicalReplication(
 		}
 	}
 
-	spec, err := buildReplicationStreamSpec(ctx, r.evalCtx, tenID, false, spans,
-		int(ldrProcCount.Get(&r.evalCtx.Settings.SV)), useStreaksInLDR.Get(&r.evalCtx.Settings.SV))
+	spec, err := buildReplicationStreamSpec(ctx, r.evalCtx, tenID, false, spans, useStreaksInLDR.Get(&r.evalCtx.Settings.SV))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime.go b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime.go
index f99b43dc61a5..2252c85937c5 100644
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime.go
+++ b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime.go
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/kv/kvserver/protectedts/ptpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/repstream/streampb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/settings"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/sql"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/sql/catalog/descpb"
 	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/sql/catalog/descs"
@@ -44,14 +43,6 @@ import (
 // expiration window will be 24 hours.
 const defaultExpirationWindow = time.Hour * 24
 
-var streamMaxProcsPerPartition = settings.RegisterIntSetting(
-	settings.ApplicationLevel,
-	"stream_replication.ingest_processor_parallelism",
-	"controls the maximum number of ingest processors to assign to each source-planned partition",
-	8,
-	settings.PositiveInt,
-)
-
 // notAReplicationJobError returns an error that is returned anytime
 // the user passes a job ID not related to a replication stream job.
 func notAReplicationJobError(id jobspb.JobID) error {
@@ -283,7 +274,7 @@ func getPhysicalReplicationStreamSpec(
 	if j.Status() != jobs.StatusRunning {
 		return nil, jobIsNotRunningError(jobID, j.Status(), "create stream spec")
 	}
-	return buildReplicationStreamSpec(ctx, evalCtx, details.TenantID, false, details.Spans, 0, true)
+	return buildReplicationStreamSpec(ctx, evalCtx, details.TenantID, false, details.Spans, true)
 
 }
 
@@ -293,7 +284,6 @@ func buildReplicationStreamSpec(
 	tenantID roachpb.TenantID,
 	forSpanConfigs bool,
 	targetSpans roachpb.Spans,
-	targetPartitionCount int,
 	useStreaks bool,
 ) (*streampb.ReplicationStreamSpec, error) {
 	jobExecCtx := evalCtx.JobExecContext.(sql.JobExecContext)
@@ -320,14 +310,6 @@ func buildReplicationStreamSpec(
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	// If more partitions were requested, try to repartition the spans.
-	if targetPartitionCount > len(spanPartitions) {
-		spanPartitions = repartitionSpans(spanPartitions, max(1, targetPartitionCount/len(spanPartitions)))
-	} else if targetPartitionCount < 1 {
-		// No explicit target requested, so fallback to 8x controlled via setting.
-		spanPartitions = repartitionSpans(spanPartitions, int(streamMaxProcsPerPartition.Get(&evalCtx.Settings.SV)))
-	}
-
 	var spanConfigsStreamID streampb.StreamID
 	if forSpanConfigs {
 		spanConfigsStreamID = streampb.StreamID(builtins.GenerateUniqueInt(builtins.ProcessUniqueID(evalCtx.NodeID.SQLInstanceID())))
@@ -356,31 +338,6 @@ func buildReplicationStreamSpec(
 	return res, nil
 }
 
-// repartitionSpans breaks up each of partition in partitions into parts smaller
-// partitions that are round-robin assigned its spans. NB: we round-robin rather
-// than assigning the first k to 1, next k to 2, etc since spans earlier in the
-// key-space are generally smaller than those later in it due to the avoidance
-// of skewed distributions during once-through streak-affinity planning (since
-// early in the planning a small streak skews the overall distribution planned
-// so far). It would be unfortunate to have round-robin assignment mean we do
-// not colocate adjacent spans in the same processor, but we already expect gaps
-// between these spans for spans assigned to other partitions, so we don't worry
-// about that here.
-func repartitionSpans(partitions []sql.SpanPartition, parts int) []sql.SpanPartition {
-	result := make([]sql.SpanPartition, 0, parts*len(partitions))
-	for part := range partitions {
-		repartitioned := make([]sql.SpanPartition, min(parts, len(partitions[part].Spans)))
-		for i := range repartitioned {
-			repartitioned[i].SQLInstanceID = partitions[part].SQLInstanceID
-		}
-		for x, sp := range partitions[part].Spans {
-			repartitioned[x%parts].Spans = append(repartitioned[x%parts].Spans, sp)
-		}
-		result = append(result, repartitioned...)
-	}
-	return result
-}
-
 func completeReplicationStream(
 	ctx context.Context,
 	evalCtx *eval.Context,
diff --git a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime_test.go b/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index abf0bd5dc1fe..000000000000
--- a/pkg/ccl/crosscluster/producer/stream_lifetime_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 The Cockroach Authors.
-//
-// Use of this software is governed by the CockroachDB Software License
-// included in the /LICENSE file.
-
-package producer
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"sort"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/base"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/roachpb"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/sql"
-	"github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/leaktest"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-)
-
-func TestRepartition(t *testing.T) {
-	defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()
-
-	p := func(node, parts, start int) sql.SpanPartition {
-		spans := make([]roachpb.Span, parts)
-		for i := range spans {
-			spans[i].Key = roachpb.Key(fmt.Sprintf("n%d-%d-a", node, i+start))
-			spans[i].EndKey = roachpb.Key(fmt.Sprintf("n%d-%d-b", node, i+start))
-		}
-		return sql.SpanPartition{SQLInstanceID: base.SQLInstanceID(node), Spans: spans}
-	}
-	for _, parts := range []int{1, 4, 100} {
-		for _, input := range [][]sql.SpanPartition{
-			{p(1, 43, 0), p(2, 44, 0), p(3, 41, 0)},
-			{p(1, 1, 0), p(2, 1, 0), p(3, 1, 0)},
-			{p(1, 43, 0), p(2, 44, 0), p(3, 38, 0)},
-		} {
-			got := repartitionSpans(input, parts)
-
-			var expectedParts int
-			var expectedSpans, gotSpans roachpb.Spans
-			for _, part := range input {
-				expectedParts += min(parts, len(part.Spans))
-				expectedSpans = append(expectedSpans, part.Spans...)
-			}
-			for _, part := range got {
-				gotSpans = append(gotSpans, part.Spans...)
-			}
-			require.Equal(t, expectedParts, len(got))
-
-			// Regardless of how we partitioned, make sure we have all the spans.
-			sort.Sort(expectedSpans)
-			sort.Sort(gotSpans)
-			require.Equal(t, len(expectedSpans), len(gotSpans))
-			require.Equal(t, expectedSpans, gotSpans)
-		}
-	}
-}