diff --git a/dask_cuda/benchmarks/custom/parquet.py b/dask_cuda/benchmarks/custom/parquet.py
index fa5075bc..47bf69ef 100644
--- a/dask_cuda/benchmarks/custom/parquet.py
+++ b/dask_cuda/benchmarks/custom/parquet.py
@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ def tables_to_frame(tables):
     )
 
 
-def read_parquet_fragments(fragments, columns=None, filters=None):
+def read_parquet_fragments(
+    fragments,
+    columns=None,
+    filters=None,
+    fragment_parallelism=None,
+):
 
     kwargs = {"columns": columns, "filters": filters}
     if not isinstance(fragments, list):
@@ -89,7 +94,11 @@ def read_parquet_fragments(fragments, columns=None, filters=None):
             return dask.threaded.get(dsk, chunk_name)
 
         if not hasattr(worker, "_rapids_executor"):
-            num_threads = len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))
+            fragment_parallelism = fragment_parallelism or 8
+            num_threads = min(
+                fragment_parallelism,
+                len(os.sched_getaffinity(0)),
+            )
             worker._rapids_executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(num_threads)
         with dask.config.set(pool=worker._rapids_executor):
             return dask.threaded.get(dsk, chunk_name)
@@ -129,7 +138,13 @@ def aggregate_fragments(fragments, blocksize):
     return [fragments[i : i + stride] for i in range(0, len(fragments), stride)]
 
 
-def read_parquet(urlpath, columns=None, filters=None, blocksize="256MB", **kwargs):
+def read_parquet(
+    urlpath,
+    columns=None,
+    filters=None,
+    blocksize="256MB",
+    fragment_parallelism=None,
+):
 
     # Use pyarrow dataset API to get fragments and meta
     ds = dataset.dataset(urlpath, format="parquet")
@@ -148,6 +163,7 @@ def read_parquet(urlpath, columns=None, filters=None, blocksize="256MB", **kwarg
         fragments,
         columns=columns,
         filters=filters,
+        fragment_parallelism=fragment_parallelism,
         meta=meta,
         enforce_metadata=False,
     )