[Devel] Re: [PATCH v3 06/16] memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache

[Glauber Costa]

On 09/22/2012 12:52 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Missed some stuff.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:12:00PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> +static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>> +						  struct kmem_cache *cachep)
>> +{
> ...
>> +	memcg->slabs[idx] = new_cachep;
> ...
>> +struct kmem_cache *__memcg_kmem_get_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>> +					  gfp_t gfp)
>> +{
> ...
>> +	return memcg->slabs[idx];
> 
> I think you need memory barriers for the above pair.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Why is that?

We'll either see a value, or NULL. If we see NULL, we assume the cache
is not yet created. Not a big deal.