From: Milan Broz Limit the amount of memory allocated per snapshot on systems with a large page size. (The larger default chunk size on these systems compensates for the smaller number of pages reserved.) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.25/drivers/md/dm-snap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.25.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 2008-04-24 17:43:47.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.25/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 2008-04-24 18:00:22.000000000 +0100 @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ #define SNAPSHOT_COPY_PRIORITY 2 /* - * Each snapshot reserves this many pages for io + * Reserve 1MB for each snapshot initially (with minimum of 1 page). */ -#define SNAPSHOT_PAGES 256 +#define SNAPSHOT_PAGES (((1UL << 20) >> PAGE_SHIFT) ? : 1) static struct workqueue_struct *ksnapd; static void flush_queued_bios(struct work_struct *work);