From: Mikulas Patocka Don't split SUB_JOB_SIZE jobs If the job size equals SUB_JOB_SIZE, there is no point in splitting it. Splitting it just unnecessarily wastes time, because the split job size is SUB_JOB_SIZE too. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Index: linux-2.6.39/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.39.orig/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c +++ linux-2.6.39/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ int dm_kcopyd_copy(struct dm_kcopyd_clie job->fn = fn; job->context = context; - if (job->source.count < SUB_JOB_SIZE) + if (job->source.count <= SUB_JOB_SIZE) dispatch_job(job); else {