diff --git a/groupcache.go b/groupcache.go
index 637b063..40410a0 100644
--- a/groupcache.go
+++ b/groupcache.go
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
 		getter:     getter,
 		peers:      peers,
 		cacheBytes: cacheBytes,
+		loadGroup:  &singleflight.Group{},
 	}
 	if fn := newGroupHook; fn != nil {
 		fn(g)
@@ -163,12 +164,20 @@
 	// loadGroup ensures that each key is only fetched once
 	// (either locally or remotely), regardless of the number of
 	// concurrent callers.
-	loadGroup singleflight.Group
+	loadGroup flightGroup
 
 	// Stats are statistics on the group.
 	Stats Stats
 }
 
+// flightGroup is defined as an interface which flightgroup.Group
+// satisfies.  We define this so that we may test with an alternate
+// implementation.
+type flightGroup interface {
+	// Done is called when Do is done.
+	Do(key string, fn func() (interface{}, error)) (interface{}, error)
+}
+
 // Stats are per-group statistics.
 type Stats struct {
 	Gets           AtomicInt // any Get request, including from peers
@@ -225,6 +234,31 @@
 func (g *Group) load(ctx Context, key string, dest Sink) (value ByteView, destPopulated bool, err error) {
 	g.Stats.Loads.Add(1)
 	viewi, err := g.loadGroup.Do(key, func() (interface{}, error) {
+		// Check the cache again because singleflight can only dedup calls
+		// that overlap concurrently.  It's possible for 2 concurrent
+		// requests to miss the cache, resulting in 2 load() calls.  An
+		// unfortunate goroutine scheduling would result in this callback
+		// being run twice, serially.  If we don't check the cache again,
+		// cache.nbytes would be incremented below even though there will
+		// be only one entry for this key.
+		//
+		// Consider the following serialized event ordering for two
+		// goroutines in which this callback gets called twice for hte
+		// same key:
+		// 1: Get("key")
+		// 2: Get("key")
+		// 1: lookupCache("key")
+		// 2: lookupCache("key")
+		// 1: load("key")
+		// 2: load("key")
+		// 1: loadGroup.Do("key", fn)
+		// 1: fn()
+		// 2: loadGroup.Do("key", fn)
+		// 2: fn()
+		if value, cacheHit := g.lookupCache(key); cacheHit {
+			g.Stats.CacheHits.Add(1)
+			return value, nil
+		}
 		g.Stats.LoadsDeduped.Add(1)
 		var value ByteView
 		var err error
diff --git a/groupcache_test.go b/groupcache_test.go
index 0ecd6bd..3a4ecc2 100644
--- a/groupcache_test.go
+++ b/groupcache_test.go
@@ -363,5 +363,85 @@
 	}
 }
 
+// orderedFlightGroup allows the caller to force the schedule of when
+// orig.Do will be called.  This is useful to serialize calls such
+// that singleflight cannot dedup them.
+type orderedFlightGroup struct {
+	mu     sync.Mutex
+	stage1 chan bool
+	stage2 chan bool
+	orig   flightGroup
+}
+
+func (g *orderedFlightGroup) Do(key string, fn func() (interface{}, error)) (interface{}, error) {
+	<-g.stage1
+	<-g.stage2
+	g.mu.Lock()
+	defer g.mu.Unlock()
+	return g.orig.Do(key, fn)
+}
+
+// TestNoDedup tests invariants on the cache size when singleflight is
+// unable to dedup calls.
+func TestNoDedup(t *testing.T) {
+	const testkey = "testkey"
+	const testval = "testval"
+	g := newGroup("testgroup", 1024, GetterFunc(func(_ Context, key string, dest Sink) error {
+		return dest.SetString(testval)
+	}), nil)
+
+	orderedGroup := &orderedFlightGroup{
+		stage1: make(chan bool),
+		stage2: make(chan bool),
+		orig:   g.loadGroup,
+	}
+	// Replace loadGroup with our wrapper so we can control when
+	// loadGroup.Do is entered for each concurrent request.
+	g.loadGroup = orderedGroup
+
+	// Issue two idential requests concurrently.  Since the cache is
+	// empty, it will miss.  Both will enter load(), but we will only
+	// allow one at a time to enter singleflight.Do, so the callback
+	// function will be called twice.
+	resc := make(chan string, 2)
+	for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+		go func() {
+			var s string
+			if err := g.Get(dummyCtx, testkey, StringSink(&s)); err != nil {
+				resc <- "ERROR:" + err.Error()
+				return
+			}
+			resc <- s
+		}()
+	}
+
+	// Ensure both goroutines have entered the Do routine.  This implies
+	// both concurrent requests have checked the cache, found it empty,
+	// and called load().
+	orderedGroup.stage1 <- true
+	orderedGroup.stage1 <- true
+	orderedGroup.stage2 <- true
+	orderedGroup.stage2 <- true
+
+	for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+		if s := <-resc; s != testval {
+			t.Errorf("result is %s want %s", s, testval)
+		}
+	}
+
+	const wantItems = 1
+	if g.mainCache.items() != wantItems {
+		t.Errorf("mainCache has %d items, want %d", g.mainCache.items(), wantItems)
+	}
+
+	// If the singleflight callback doesn't double-check the cache again
+	// upon entry, we would increment nbytes twice but the entry would
+	// only be in the cache once.
+	const wantBytes = int64(len(testkey) + len(testval))
+	if g.mainCache.nbytes != wantBytes {
+		t.Errorf("cache has %d bytes, want %d", g.mainCache.nbytes, wantBytes)
+	}
+}
+
 // TODO(bradfitz): port the Google-internal full integration test into here,
 // using HTTP requests instead of our RPC system.