diff --git a/faiss/IndexIVFFastScan.cpp b/faiss/IndexIVFFastScan.cpp
index 855665c617..00bc6c823e 100644
--- a/faiss/IndexIVFFastScan.cpp
+++ b/faiss/IndexIVFFastScan.cpp
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ void IndexIVFFastScan::range_search_dispatch_implem(
         {
             RangeSearchPartialResult pres(&rres);
 
-#pragma omp parallel for reduction(+ : ndis, nlist_visited)
+#pragma omp for reduction(+ : ndis, nlist_visited)
             for (int slice = 0; slice < nslice; slice++) {
                 idx_t i0 = n * slice / nslice;
                 idx_t i1 = n * (slice + 1) / nslice;
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index a1c3266961..8522fa613d 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ set(FAISS_TEST_SRC
   test_code_distance.cpp
   test_hnsw.cpp
   test_partitioning.cpp
+  test_fastscan_perf.cpp
 )
 
 add_executable(faiss_test ${FAISS_TEST_SRC})
diff --git a/tests/test_fastscan_perf.cpp b/tests/test_fastscan_perf.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82321b2ede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_fastscan_perf.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+#include <gtest/gtest.h>
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <memory>
+#include <random>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <omp.h>
+
+#include <faiss/IndexFlat.h>
+#include <faiss/IndexIVFPQFastScan.h>
+#include <faiss/impl/AuxIndexStructures.h>
+
+TEST(TestFastScan, knnVSrange) {
+    // small vectors and database
+    int d = 64;
+    size_t nb = 1000;
+
+    // ivf centroids
+    size_t nlist = 4;
+
+    // more than 2 threads to surface
+    // problems related to multi-threading
+    omp_set_num_threads(8);
+
+    // random database, also used as queries
+    std::vector<float> database(nb * d);
+    std::mt19937 rng;
+    std::uniform_real_distribution<> distrib;
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < nb * d; i++) {
+        database[i] = distrib(rng);
+    }
+
+    // build index
+    faiss::IndexFlatL2 coarse_quantizer(d);
+    faiss::IndexIVFPQFastScan index(
+            &coarse_quantizer, d, nlist, d / 2, 4, faiss::METRIC_L2, 32);
+    index.pq.cp.niter = 10; // speed up train
+    index.nprobe = nlist;
+    index.train(nb, database.data());
+    index.add(nb, database.data());
+
+    std::vector<float> distances(nb);
+    std::vector<faiss::idx_t> labels(nb);
+    auto t = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+    index.search(nb, database.data(), 1, distances.data(), labels.data());
+    auto knn_time = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(
+                            std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - t)
+                            .count();
+
+    faiss::RangeSearchResult rsr(nb);
+    t = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+    index.range_search(nb, database.data(), 1.0, &rsr);
+    auto range_time = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(
+                              std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - t)
+                              .count();
+
+    // we expect the perf of knn and range search
+    // to be similar, at least within a factor of 2
+    ASSERT_LT(range_time, knn_time * 2);
+    ASSERT_LT(knn_time, range_time * 2);
+}