diff --git a/br/pkg/restore/client.go b/br/pkg/restore/client.go
index 74db13d968e15..1875cb1ca5423 100644
--- a/br/pkg/restore/client.go
+++ b/br/pkg/restore/client.go
@@ -667,6 +667,16 @@ func (rc *Client) GetFilesInRawRange(startKey []byte, endKey []byte, cf string)
 // SetConcurrency sets the concurrency of dbs tables files.
 func (rc *Client) SetConcurrency(c uint) {
 	log.Info("download worker pool", zap.Uint("size", c))
+	if rc.granularity == string(CoarseGrained) {
+		// we believe 32 is large enough for download worker pool.
+		// it won't reach the limit if sst files distribute evenly.
+		// when restore memory usage is still too high, we should reduce concurrencyPerStore
+		// to sarifice some speed to reduce memory usage.
+		count := uint(rc.storeCount) * rc.concurrencyPerStore * 32
+		log.Info("download coarse worker pool", zap.Uint("size", count))
+		rc.workerPool = utils.NewWorkerPool(count, "file")
+		return
+	}
 	rc.workerPool = utils.NewWorkerPool(c, "file")
 }
 
@@ -1544,8 +1554,8 @@ LOOPFORTABLE:
 					// wait for download worker notified
 					rc.fileImporter.cond.Wait()
 				}
-				eg.Go(restoreFn)
 				rc.fileImporter.cond.L.Unlock()
+				rc.workerPool.ApplyOnErrorGroup(eg, restoreFn)
 			} else {
 				// if we are not use coarse granularity which means
 				// we still pipeline split & scatter regions and import sst files
diff --git a/br/pkg/task/restore.go b/br/pkg/task/restore.go
index b103562e427c4..2e18baafd9ce3 100644
--- a/br/pkg/task/restore.go
+++ b/br/pkg/task/restore.go
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ func (cfg *RestoreCommonConfig) adjust() {
 func DefineRestoreCommonFlags(flags *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	// TODO remove experimental tag if it's stable
 	flags.Bool(flagOnline, false, "(experimental) Whether online when restore")
-	flags.String(flagGranularity, string(restore.FineGrained), "(experimental) Whether split & scatter regions using fine-grained way during restore")
-	flags.Uint(flagConcurrencyPerStore, 128, "(experimental) The size of thread pool on each store that executes tasks")
+	flags.String(flagGranularity, string(restore.FineGrained), "Whether split & scatter regions using fine-grained way during restore")
+	flags.Uint(flagConcurrencyPerStore, 128, "The size of thread pool on each store that executes tasks, only enabled when `--granularity=coarse-grained`")
 	flags.Uint32(flagConcurrency, 128, "(deprecated) The size of thread pool on BR that executes tasks, "+
 		"where each task restores one SST file to TiKV")
 	flags.Uint64(FlagMergeRegionSizeBytes, conn.DefaultMergeRegionSizeBytes,