diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 0fbcacc..bbeeac6 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 /* 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)
@@ -397,7 +400,12 @@
 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. 
 	 */