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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:05:34 -0800
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
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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?