diff --git a/tests/migration-stress/guestperf/comparison.py b/tests/migration-stress/guestperf/comparison.py
index 42cc0372d1..40e9d2eb1d 100644
--- a/tests/migration-stress/guestperf/comparison.py
+++ b/tests/migration-stress/guestperf/comparison.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ COMPARISONS = [
     # varying numbers of channels
     Comparison("compr-multifd", scenarios = [
         Scenario("compr-multifd-channels-4",
-                 multifd=True, multifd_channels=2),
+                 multifd=True, multifd_channels=4),
         Scenario("compr-multifd-channels-8",
                  multifd=True, multifd_channels=8),
         Scenario("compr-multifd-channels-32",