On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:16:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Changes from v2: > > o Switch from rcu_assign_pointer() to ACCESS_ONCE() given that > the pointers are all --rcu and already visible to readers, > as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh Triplett. Hang on a moment. Do *none* of these cases need write memory barriers? - Josh Triplet