diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index db7e65531afa4ad6138c501b24655b3e167ba15e..58dc02bd16c219a8b05b97ce3be320cd0941ecf3 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -1389,11 +1389,13 @@ struct bm_extent {
 #endif
 
 /* Sector shift value for the "hash" functions of tl_hash and ee_hash tables.
- * With a value of 6 all IO in one 32K block make it to the same slot of the
+ * With a value of 8 all IO in one 128K block make it to the same slot of the
  * hash table. */
-#define HT_SHIFT 6
+#define HT_SHIFT 8
 #define DRBD_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE (1U<<(9+HT_SHIFT))
 
+#define DRBD_MAX_SIZE_H80_PACKET (1 << 15) /* The old header only allows packets up to 32Kib data */
+
 /* Number of elements in the app_reads_hash */
 #define APP_R_HSIZE 15
 
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index f3f4ea9c5eb98ea97ab36022f86b8ddcc0575abb..71c4c261573e9c40fe441326798d715d74a51bad 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@ int drbd_send_dblock(struct drbd_conf *mdev, struct drbd_request *req)
 	dgs = (mdev->agreed_pro_version >= 87 && mdev->integrity_w_tfm) ?
 		crypto_hash_digestsize(mdev->integrity_w_tfm) : 0;
 
-	if (req->size <= (1 << 15)) {
+	if (req->size <= DRBD_MAX_SIZE_H80_PACKET) {
 		p.head.h80.magic   = BE_DRBD_MAGIC;
 		p.head.h80.command = cpu_to_be16(P_DATA);
 		p.head.h80.length  =
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ int drbd_send_block(struct drbd_conf *mdev, enum drbd_packets cmd,
 	dgs = (mdev->agreed_pro_version >= 87 && mdev->integrity_w_tfm) ?
 		crypto_hash_digestsize(mdev->integrity_w_tfm) : 0;
 
-	if (e->size <= (1 << 15)) {
+	if (e->size <= DRBD_MAX_SIZE_H80_PACKET) {
 		p.head.h80.magic   = BE_DRBD_MAGIC;
 		p.head.h80.command = cpu_to_be16(cmd);
 		p.head.h80.length  =
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 6b35d41706e43929099b9b5186750b7899b99d1c..97fb2c2a7a57635ae293da9977e2130d08beea0e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,9 @@ static int drbd_nl_disk_conf(struct drbd_conf *mdev, struct drbd_nl_cfg_req *nlp
 	mdev->read_cnt = 0;
 	mdev->writ_cnt = 0;
 
-	drbd_setup_queue_param(mdev, DRBD_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE);
+	drbd_setup_queue_param(mdev, mdev->state.conn == C_CONNECTED &&
+			       mdev->agreed_pro_version < 95 ?
+			       DRBD_MAX_SIZE_H80_PACKET : DRBD_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE);
 
 	/* If I am currently not R_PRIMARY,
 	 * but meta data primary indicator is set,
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
index fe308644a63ca9a004f58b328def9669668136bd..4249117f1f676083cc17bf6ba0d68c8e0e3ead76 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c
@@ -925,6 +925,11 @@ static int drbd_connect(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
 
 	drbd_thread_start(&mdev->asender);
 
+	if (mdev->agreed_pro_version < 95 && get_ldev(mdev)) {
+		drbd_setup_queue_param(mdev, DRBD_MAX_SIZE_H80_PACKET);
+		put_ldev(mdev);
+	}
+
 	if (!drbd_send_protocol(mdev))
 		return -1;
 	drbd_send_sync_param(mdev, &mdev->sync_conf);