diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 5b34799f3..eefeb4e94 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import (
 	ocispec "github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1"
 	specs "github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/health/grpc_health_v1"
 )
@@ -292,6 +293,9 @@ type RemoteContext struct {
 	// platforms will be used to create a PlatformMatcher with no ordering
 	// preference.
 	Platforms []string
+
+	// MaxConcurrentDownloads is the max concurrent content downloads for each pull.
+	MaxConcurrentDownloads int
 }
 
 func defaultRemoteContext() *RemoteContext {
@@ -407,6 +411,7 @@ func (c *Client) fetch(ctx context.Context, rCtx *RemoteContext, ref string, lim
 
 		isConvertible bool
 		converterFunc func(context.Context, ocispec.Descriptor) (ocispec.Descriptor, error)
+		limiter       *semaphore.Weighted
 	)
 
 	if desc.MediaType == images.MediaTypeDockerSchema1Manifest && rCtx.ConvertSchema1 {
@@ -453,7 +458,10 @@ func (c *Client) fetch(ctx context.Context, rCtx *RemoteContext, ref string, lim
 		}
 	}
 
-	if err := images.Dispatch(ctx, handler, desc); err != nil {
+	if rCtx.MaxConcurrentDownloads > 0 {
+		limiter = semaphore.NewWeighted(int64(rCtx.MaxConcurrentDownloads))
+	}
+	if err := images.Dispatch(ctx, handler, limiter, desc); err != nil {
 		return images.Image{}, err
 	}
 
diff --git a/client_opts.go b/client_opts.go
index b7431ad29..cb3792fb3 100644
--- a/client_opts.go
+++ b/client_opts.go
@@ -178,3 +178,11 @@ func WithImageHandler(h images.Handler) RemoteOpt {
 		return nil
 	}
 }
+
+// WithMaxConcurrentDownloads sets max concurrent download limit.
+func WithMaxConcurrentDownloads(max int) RemoteOpt {
+	return func(client *Client, c *RemoteContext) error {
+		c.MaxConcurrentDownloads = max
+		return nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/client_test.go b/client_test.go
index 1a4cf3962..83081a6c9 100644
--- a/client_test.go
+++ b/client_test.go
@@ -327,6 +327,23 @@ func TestImagePullSchema1(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestImagePullWithConcurrencyLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	client, err := newClient(t, address)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer client.Close()
+
+	ctx, cancel := testContext()
+	defer cancel()
+	_, err = client.Pull(ctx, testImage,
+		WithPlatformMatcher(platforms.Default()),
+		WithMaxConcurrentDownloads(2))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestClientReconnect(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
diff --git a/images/handlers.go b/images/handlers.go
index 230a9caf8..dac701bb8 100644
--- a/images/handlers.go
+++ b/images/handlers.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import (
 	ocispec "github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
+	"golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -108,19 +109,30 @@ func Walk(ctx context.Context, handler Handler, descs ...ocispec.Descriptor) err
 // handler may return `ErrSkipDesc` to signal to the dispatcher to not traverse
 // any children.
 //
+// A concurrency limiter can be passed in to limit the number of concurrent
+// handlers running. When limiter is nil, there is no limit.
+//
 // Typically, this function will be used with `FetchHandler`, often composed
 // with other handlers.
 //
 // If any handler returns an error, the dispatch session will be canceled.
-func Dispatch(ctx context.Context, handler Handler, descs ...ocispec.Descriptor) error {
+func Dispatch(ctx context.Context, handler Handler, limiter *semaphore.Weighted, descs ...ocispec.Descriptor) error {
 	eg, ctx := errgroup.WithContext(ctx)
 	for _, desc := range descs {
 		desc := desc
 
+		if limiter != nil {
+			if err := limiter.Acquire(ctx, 1); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
 		eg.Go(func() error {
 			desc := desc
 
 			children, err := handler.Handle(ctx, desc)
+			if limiter != nil {
+				limiter.Release(1)
+			}
 			if err != nil {
 				if errors.Cause(err) == ErrSkipDesc {
 					return nil // don't traverse the children.
@@ -129,7 +141,7 @@ func Dispatch(ctx context.Context, handler Handler, descs ...ocispec.Descriptor)
 			}
 
 			if len(children) > 0 {
-				return Dispatch(ctx, handler, children...)
+				return Dispatch(ctx, handler, limiter, children...)
 			}
 
 			return nil
diff --git a/remotes/handlers.go b/remotes/handlers.go
index 77310fb62..86922de99 100644
--- a/remotes/handlers.go
+++ b/remotes/handlers.go
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ func PushContent(ctx context.Context, pusher Pusher, desc ocispec.Descriptor, pr
 		pushHandler,
 	)
 
-	if err := images.Dispatch(ctx, images.Handlers(handlers...), desc); err != nil {
+	if err := images.Dispatch(ctx, images.Handlers(handlers...), nil, desc); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
diff --git a/vendor.conf b/vendor.conf
index 5abbc57b5..10f886342 100644
--- a/vendor.conf
+++ b/vendor.conf
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ github.com/pkg/errors v0.8.0
 github.com/opencontainers/go-digest c9281466c8b2f606084ac71339773efd177436e7
 golang.org/x/sys 1b2967e3c290b7c545b3db0deeda16e9be4f98a2 https://github.com/golang/sys
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.0.1
-golang.org/x/sync 450f422ab23cf9881c94e2db30cac0eb1b7cf80c
+golang.org/x/sync 42b317875d0fa942474b76e1b46a6060d720ae6e
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml a368813c5e648fee92e5f6c30e3944ff9d5e8895
 github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus 6b7015e65d366bf3f19b2b2a000a831940f0f7e0
 github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.4.11
diff --git a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 59c9dcb49..000000000
--- a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-This repository provides Go concurrency primitives in addition to the
-ones provided by the language and "sync" and "sync/atomic" packages.
diff --git a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README.md b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f8436cc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Go Sync
+
+This repository provides Go concurrency primitives in addition to the
+ones provided by the language and "sync" and "sync/atomic" packages.
+
+## Download/Install
+
+The easiest way to install is to run `go get -u golang.org/x/sync`. You can
+also manually git clone the repository to `$GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/sync`.
+
+## Report Issues / Send Patches
+
+This repository uses Gerrit for code changes. To learn how to submit changes to
+this repository, see https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html.
+
+The main issue tracker for the sync repository is located at
+https://github.com/golang/go/issues. Prefix your issue with "x/sync:" in the
+subject line, so it is easy to find.
diff --git a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup/errgroup.go b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup/errgroup.go
index 533438d91..9857fe53d 100644
--- a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup/errgroup.go
+++ b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup/errgroup.go
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@
 package errgroup
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"sync"
-
-	"golang.org/x/net/context"
 )
 
 // A Group is a collection of goroutines working on subtasks that are part of
diff --git a/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore/semaphore.go b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore/semaphore.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2096ca3a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore/semaphore.go
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package semaphore provides a weighted semaphore implementation.
+package semaphore // import "golang.org/x/sync/semaphore"
+
+import (
+	"container/list"
+	"context"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+type waiter struct {
+	n     int64
+	ready chan<- struct{} // Closed when semaphore acquired.
+}
+
+// NewWeighted creates a new weighted semaphore with the given
+// maximum combined weight for concurrent access.
+func NewWeighted(n int64) *Weighted {
+	w := &Weighted{size: n}
+	return w
+}
+
+// Weighted provides a way to bound concurrent access to a resource.
+// The callers can request access with a given weight.
+type Weighted struct {
+	size    int64
+	cur     int64
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	waiters list.List
+}
+
+// Acquire acquires the semaphore with a weight of n, blocking only until ctx
+// is done. On success, returns nil. On failure, returns ctx.Err() and leaves
+// the semaphore unchanged.
+//
+// If ctx is already done, Acquire may still succeed without blocking.
+func (s *Weighted) Acquire(ctx context.Context, n int64) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	if s.size-s.cur >= n && s.waiters.Len() == 0 {
+		s.cur += n
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if n > s.size {
+		// Don't make other Acquire calls block on one that's doomed to fail.
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		<-ctx.Done()
+		return ctx.Err()
+	}
+
+	ready := make(chan struct{})
+	w := waiter{n: n, ready: ready}
+	elem := s.waiters.PushBack(w)
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		err := ctx.Err()
+		s.mu.Lock()
+		select {
+		case <-ready:
+			// Acquired the semaphore after we were canceled.  Rather than trying to
+			// fix up the queue, just pretend we didn't notice the cancelation.
+			err = nil
+		default:
+			s.waiters.Remove(elem)
+		}
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		return err
+
+	case <-ready:
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// TryAcquire acquires the semaphore with a weight of n without blocking.
+// On success, returns true. On failure, returns false and leaves the semaphore unchanged.
+func (s *Weighted) TryAcquire(n int64) bool {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	success := s.size-s.cur >= n && s.waiters.Len() == 0
+	if success {
+		s.cur += n
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	return success
+}
+
+// Release releases the semaphore with a weight of n.
+func (s *Weighted) Release(n int64) {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.cur -= n
+	if s.cur < 0 {
+		s.mu.Unlock()
+		panic("semaphore: bad release")
+	}
+	for {
+		next := s.waiters.Front()
+		if next == nil {
+			break // No more waiters blocked.
+		}
+
+		w := next.Value.(waiter)
+		if s.size-s.cur < w.n {
+			// Not enough tokens for the next waiter.  We could keep going (to try to
+			// find a waiter with a smaller request), but under load that could cause
+			// starvation for large requests; instead, we leave all remaining waiters
+			// blocked.
+			//
+			// Consider a semaphore used as a read-write lock, with N tokens, N
+			// readers, and one writer.  Each reader can Acquire(1) to obtain a read
+			// lock.  The writer can Acquire(N) to obtain a write lock, excluding all
+			// of the readers.  If we allow the readers to jump ahead in the queue,
+			// the writer will starve — there is always one token available for every
+			// reader.
+			break
+		}
+
+		s.cur += w.n
+		s.waiters.Remove(next)
+		close(w.ready)
+	}
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+}