1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 55895ccc08c6..da806aceae3f 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ struct files_stat_struct files_stat = {
 /* public. Not pretty! */
 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(files_lock);
 
+/* SLAB cache for file structures */
+static struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep __read_mostly;
+
 static struct percpu_counter nr_files __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 static inline void file_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
@@ -399,7 +402,12 @@ too_bad:
 void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages)
 { 
         int n; 
-        /* One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K. 
+
+        filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
+                        SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+
+        /*
+         * One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K.
          * Per default don't use more than 10% of our memory for files. 
          */