From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: dm: bio split bvec fix
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:05:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320140534.1feeccca.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320192155.GU4724@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The code that handles bios that span table target boundaries by breaking
> them up into smaller bios will not split an individual struct bio_vec
> into more than two pieces. Sometimes more than that are required.
>
> This patch adds a loop to break the second piece up into as many
> pieces as are necessary.
Should this go into 2.6.16.1?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 19:21 dm: bio split bvec fix Alasdair G Kergon
2006-03-20 22:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-22 11:32 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-22 12:19 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2006-03-22 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-22 13:08 ` Jens Axboe
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