Thread (74 messages) 74 messages, 6 authors, 2012-10-02

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

From: Glauber Costa <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-24 08:21:10
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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:
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+static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+						  struct kmem_cache *cachep)
+{
...
quoted
+	memcg->slabs[idx] = new_cachep;
...
quoted
+struct kmem_cache *__memcg_kmem_get_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
+					  gfp_t gfp)
+{
...
quoted
+	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.

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