} else {
                /*
-                * Create two copy bios to deal with io that has
-                * been split across a target.
+                * Handle a bvec that must be split between two or more targets.
                 */
                struct bio_vec *bv = bio->bi_io_vec + ci->idx;
+               sector_t remaining = to_sector(bv->bv_len);
+               unsigned int offset = 0;
 
-               clone = split_bvec(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
-                                  bv->bv_offset, max);
-               __map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
+               do {
+                       if (offset) {
+                               ti = dm_table_find_target(ci->map, ci->sector);
+                               max = max_io_len(ci->md, ci->sector, ti);
 
-               ci->sector += max;
-               ci->sector_count -= max;
-               ti = dm_table_find_target(ci->map, ci->sector);
-
-               len = to_sector(bv->bv_len) - max;
-               clone = split_bvec(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
-                                  bv->bv_offset + to_bytes(max), len);
-               tio = alloc_tio(ci->md);
-               tio->io = ci->io;
-               tio->ti = ti;
-               memset(&tio->info, 0, sizeof(tio->info));
-               __map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
+                               tio = alloc_tio(ci->md);
+                               tio->io = ci->io;
+                               tio->ti = ti;
+                               memset(&tio->info, 0, sizeof(tio->info));
+                       }
+
+                       len = min(remaining, max);
+
+                       clone = split_bvec(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
+                                          bv->bv_offset + offset, len);
+
+                       __map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
+
+                       ci->sector += len;
+                       ci->sector_count -= len;
+                       offset += to_bytes(len);
+               } while (remaining -= len);
 
-               ci->sector += len;
-               ci->sector_count -= len;
                ci->idx++;
        }
 }