diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.c
index 9b4dde8c09b..2b0593ae221 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.c
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ void
 brw_init_compile(struct brw_context *brw, struct brw_compile *p, void *mem_ctx)
 {
    p->brw = brw;
+   /*
+    * Set the initial instruction store array size to 1024, if found that
+    * isn't enough, then it will double the store size at brw_next_insn()
+    * until out of memory.
+    */
+   p->store_size = 1024;
+   p->store = rzalloc_array(mem_ctx, struct brw_instruction, p->store_size);
    p->nr_insn = 0;
    p->current = p->stack;
    p->compressed = false;
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.h b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.h
index 75642a524c4..d967d934305 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.h
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu.h
@@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ struct brw_glsl_call;
 
 
 #define BRW_EU_MAX_INSN_STACK 5
-#define BRW_EU_MAX_INSN 10000
 
 struct brw_compile {
-   struct brw_instruction store[BRW_EU_MAX_INSN];
+   struct brw_instruction *store;
+   int store_size;
    GLuint nr_insn;
 
    void *mem_ctx;
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu_emit.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu_emit.c
index ac91820693c..c22b4083c71 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu_emit.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_eu_emit.c
@@ -691,7 +691,15 @@ brw_next_insn(struct brw_compile *p, GLuint opcode)
 {
    struct brw_instruction *insn;
 
-   assert(p->nr_insn + 1 < BRW_EU_MAX_INSN);
+   if (p->nr_insn + 1 > p->store_size) {
+      if (0)
+         printf("incresing the store size to %d\n", p->store_size << 1);
+      p->store_size <<= 1;
+      p->store = reralloc(p->mem_ctx, p->store,
+                          struct brw_instruction, p->store_size);
+      if (!p->store)
+         assert(!"realloc eu store memeory failed");
+   }
 
    insn = &p->store[p->nr_insn++];
    memcpy(insn, p->current, sizeof(*insn));