diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 25135c053..171b68fdc 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
 ### Performance Improvements
 * When compiled with folly (Meta-internal integration; experimental in open source build), improve the locking performance (CPU efficiency) of LRUCache by using folly DistributedMutex in place of standard mutex.
 
+### Performance Improvements
+* Rather than doing total sort against all files in a level, SortFileByOverlappingRatio() to only find the top 50 files based on score. This can improve write throughput for the use cases where data is loaded in increasing key order and there are a lot of files in one LSM-tree, where applying compaction results is the bottleneck.
+
 ## 7.3.0 (05/20/2022)
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fixed a bug where manual flush would block forever even though flush options had wait=false.
diff --git a/db/compaction/compaction_picker_test.cc b/db/compaction/compaction_picker_test.cc
index 7da018aad..c65ec1eec 100644
--- a/db/compaction/compaction_picker_test.cc
+++ b/db/compaction/compaction_picker_test.cc
@@ -1349,6 +1349,61 @@ TEST_F(CompactionPickerTest, CompactionPriRoundRobin) {
   }
 }
 
+TEST_F(CompactionPickerTest, CompactionPriMinOverlappingManyFiles) {
+  NewVersionStorage(6, kCompactionStyleLevel);
+  ioptions_.compaction_pri = kMinOverlappingRatio;
+  mutable_cf_options_.max_bytes_for_level_base = 15000000;
+  mutable_cf_options_.max_bytes_for_level_multiplier = 10;
+
+  // file 7 and 8 over lap with the same file, but file 8 is smaller so
+  // it will be picked.
+  Add(2, 13U, "010", "011",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 14U, "020", "021",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 15U, "030", "031",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 16U, "040", "041",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 17U, "050", "051",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 18U, "060", "061",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 19U, "070", "071",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 20U, "080", "081",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+
+  Add(2, 6U, "150", "167", 60000000U);  // Overlaps with file 26, 27
+  Add(2, 7U, "168", "169", 60000000U);  // Overlaps with file 27
+  Add(2, 8U, "201", "300", 61000000U);  // Overlaps with file 28, but the file
+                                        // itself is larger. Should be picked.
+  Add(2, 9U, "610", "611",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 10U, "620", "621",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 11U, "630", "631",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+  Add(2, 12U, "640", "641",
+      6100U);  // Overlaps with a large file. Not picked
+
+  Add(3, 31U, "001", "100", 260000000U);
+  Add(3, 26U, "160", "165", 260000000U);
+  Add(3, 27U, "166", "170", 260000000U);
+  Add(3, 28U, "180", "400", 260000000U);
+  Add(3, 29U, "401", "500", 260000000U);
+  Add(3, 30U, "601", "700", 260000000U);
+  UpdateVersionStorageInfo();
+
+  std::unique_ptr<Compaction> compaction(level_compaction_picker.PickCompaction(
+      cf_name_, mutable_cf_options_, mutable_db_options_, vstorage_.get(),
+      &log_buffer_));
+  ASSERT_TRUE(compaction.get() != nullptr);
+  ASSERT_EQ(1U, compaction->num_input_files(0));
+  // Picking file 8 because overlapping ratio is the biggest.
+  ASSERT_EQ(8U, compaction->input(0, 0)->fd.GetNumber());
+}
+
 // This test exhibits the bug where we don't properly reset parent_index in
 // PickCompaction()
 TEST_F(CompactionPickerTest, ParentIndexResetBug) {
diff --git a/db/version_set.cc b/db/version_set.cc
index 162dd00ee..66d55d4f7 100644
--- a/db/version_set.cc
+++ b/db/version_set.cc
@@ -3189,11 +3189,15 @@ void SortFileByOverlappingRatio(
                                           ttl_boost_score;
   }
 
-  std::sort(temp->begin(), temp->end(),
-            [&](const Fsize& f1, const Fsize& f2) -> bool {
-              return file_to_order[f1.file->fd.GetNumber()] <
-                     file_to_order[f2.file->fd.GetNumber()];
-            });
+  size_t num_to_sort = temp->size() > VersionStorageInfo::kNumberFilesToSort
+                           ? VersionStorageInfo::kNumberFilesToSort
+                           : temp->size();
+
+  std::partial_sort(temp->begin(), temp->begin() + num_to_sort, temp->end(),
+                    [&](const Fsize& f1, const Fsize& f2) -> bool {
+                      return file_to_order[f1.file->fd.GetNumber()] <
+                             file_to_order[f2.file->fd.GetNumber()];
+                    });
 }
 
 void SortFileByRoundRobin(const InternalKeyComparator& icmp,