diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index 33f0b827757d729a02ab4545865c2ba4dfca8641..a64c645b4184b5170e02d043cb57dafafbee973b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -1327,14 +1327,14 @@ struct bm_extent {
 #endif
 #endif
 
-/* BIO_MAX_SIZE is 256 * PAGE_SIZE,
+/* Estimate max bio size as 256 * PAGE_SIZE,
  * so for typical PAGE_SIZE of 4k, that is (1<<20) Byte.
  * Since we may live in a mixed-platform cluster,
  * we limit us to a platform agnostic constant here for now.
  * A followup commit may allow even bigger BIO sizes,
  * once we thought that through. */
 #define DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE (1U << 20)
-#if DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE > BIO_MAX_SIZE
+#if DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE > (BIO_MAX_PAGES << PAGE_SHIFT)
 #error Architecture not supported: DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE > BIO_MAX_SIZE
 #endif
 #define DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE_SAFE (1U << 12)       /* Works always = 4k */