diff --git a/lib/zstd/common/compiler.h b/lib/zstd/common/compiler.h
index a1a051e4bce6..f5a9c70a228a 100644
--- a/lib/zstd/common/compiler.h
+++ b/lib/zstd/common/compiler.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 *********************************************************/
 /* force inlining */
 
+#if !defined(ZSTD_NO_INLINE)
 #if (defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)) || defined(__cplusplus) || defined(__STDC_VERSION__) && __STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L   /* C99 */
 #  define INLINE_KEYWORD inline
 #else
@@ -24,6 +25,12 @@
 
 #define FORCE_INLINE_ATTR __attribute__((always_inline))
 
+#else
+
+#define INLINE_KEYWORD
+#define FORCE_INLINE_ATTR
+
+#endif
 
 /*
   On MSVC qsort requires that functions passed into it use the __cdecl calling conversion(CC).
diff --git a/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_opt.c b/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_opt.c
index 04337050fe9a..dfc55e3e8119 100644
--- a/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_opt.c
+++ b/lib/zstd/compress/zstd_opt.c
@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@
  * You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licenses.
  */
 
+/*
+ * Disable inlining for the optimal parser for the kernel build.
+ * It is unlikely to be used in the kernel, and where it is used
+ * latency shouldn't matter because it is very slow to begin with.
+ * We prefer a ~180KB binary size win over faster optimal parsing.
+ *
+ * TODO(https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/2862):
+ * Improve the code size of the optimal parser in general, so we
+ * don't need this hack for the kernel build.
+ */
+#define ZSTD_NO_INLINE 1
+
 #include "zstd_compress_internal.h"
 #include "hist.h"
 #include "zstd_opt.h"