diff --git a/statistics/cmsketch.go b/statistics/cmsketch.go
index 3c6d9ee566717..f94d00ca08fa5 100644
--- a/statistics/cmsketch.go
+++ b/statistics/cmsketch.go
@@ -919,14 +919,13 @@ func checkEmptyTopNs(topNs []*TopN) bool {
 }
 
 // SortTopnMeta sort topnMeta
-func SortTopnMeta(topnMetas []TopNMeta) []TopNMeta {
+func SortTopnMeta(topnMetas []TopNMeta) {
 	slices.SortFunc(topnMetas, func(i, j TopNMeta) int {
 		if i.Count != j.Count {
 			return cmp.Compare(j.Count, i.Count)
 		}
 		return bytes.Compare(i.Encoded, j.Encoded)
 	})
-	return topnMetas
 }
 
 // GetMergedTopNFromSortedSlice returns merged topn
@@ -935,12 +934,7 @@ func GetMergedTopNFromSortedSlice(sorted []TopNMeta, n uint32) (*TopN, []TopNMet
 }
 
 func getMergedTopNFromSortedSlice(sorted []TopNMeta, n uint32) (*TopN, []TopNMeta) {
-	slices.SortFunc(sorted, func(i, j TopNMeta) int {
-		if i.Count != j.Count {
-			return cmp.Compare(j.Count, i.Count)
-		}
-		return bytes.Compare(i.Encoded, j.Encoded)
-	})
+	SortTopnMeta(sorted)
 	n = mathutil.Min(uint32(len(sorted)), n)
 
 	var finalTopN TopN
diff --git a/statistics/cmsketch_test.go b/statistics/cmsketch_test.go
index e715235c193af..8d165b7b54d68 100644
--- a/statistics/cmsketch_test.go
+++ b/statistics/cmsketch_test.go
@@ -347,8 +347,8 @@ func TestSortTopnMeta(t *testing.T) {
 		Encoded: []byte("b"),
 		Count:   2,
 	}}
-	sortedData := SortTopnMeta(data)
-	require.Equal(t, uint64(2), sortedData[0].Count)
+	SortTopnMeta(data)
+	require.Equal(t, uint64(2), data[0].Count)
 }
 
 func TestMergePartTopN2GlobalTopNWithHists(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/statistics/handle/handle.go b/statistics/handle/handle.go
index a862b03d949b4..17402392fb548 100644
--- a/statistics/handle/handle.go
+++ b/statistics/handle/handle.go
@@ -970,7 +970,10 @@ func MergeGlobalStatsTopNByConcurrency(mergeConcurrency, mergeBatchSize int, wra
 	}
 
 	globalTopN, popedTopn := statistics.GetMergedTopNFromSortedSlice(sorted, n)
-	return globalTopN, statistics.SortTopnMeta(append(leftTopn, popedTopn...)), wrapper.AllHg, nil
+
+	result := append(leftTopn, popedTopn...)
+	statistics.SortTopnMeta(result)
+	return globalTopN, result, wrapper.AllHg, nil
 }
 
 func (h *Handle) getTableByPhysicalID(is infoschema.InfoSchema, physicalID int64) (table.Table, bool) {