diff --git a/wally-pipelined/regression/regression-wally.py b/wally-pipelined/regression/regression-wally.py
index 828c2b7c..a0591d6a 100755
--- a/wally-pipelined/regression/regression-wally.py
+++ b/wally-pipelined/regression/regression-wally.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ configs = [
 ]
 def getBuildrootTC(short):
     INSTR_LIMIT = 100000 # multiple of 100000
-    MAX_EXPECTED = 182000000
+    MAX_EXPECTED = 246000000
     if short:
         BRcmd="vsim > {} -c <<!\ndo wally-buildroot-batch.do "+str(INSTR_LIMIT)+" 1 0\n!"
         BRgrepstr=str(INSTR_LIMIT)+" instructions"