diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index b856786..909975f 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
 #include	<linux/mutex.h>
 #include	<linux/fault-inject.h>
 #include	<linux/rtmutex.h>
+#include	<linux/reciprocal_div.h>
 
 #include	<asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include	<asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -386,6 +387,7 @@
 	unsigned int shared;
 
 	unsigned int buffer_size;
+	u32 reciprocal_buffer_size;
 /* 3) touched by every alloc & free from the backend */
 	struct kmem_list3 *nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
 
@@ -627,10 +629,17 @@
 	return slab->s_mem + cache->buffer_size * idx;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned int obj_to_index(struct kmem_cache *cache,
-					struct slab *slab, void *obj)
+/*
+ * We want to avoid an expensive divide : (offset / cache->buffer_size)
+ *   Using the fact that buffer_size is a constant for a particular cache,
+ *   we can replace (offset / cache->buffer_size) by
+ *   reciprocal_divide(offset, cache->reciprocal_buffer_size)
+ */
+static inline unsigned int obj_to_index(const struct kmem_cache *cache,
+					const struct slab *slab, void *obj)
 {
-	return (unsigned)(obj - slab->s_mem) / cache->buffer_size;
+	u32 offset = (obj - slab->s_mem);
+	return reciprocal_divide(offset, cache->reciprocal_buffer_size);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1427,6 +1436,8 @@
 
 	cache_cache.buffer_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.buffer_size,
 					cache_line_size());
+	cache_cache.reciprocal_buffer_size =
+		reciprocal_value(cache_cache.buffer_size);
 
 	for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
 		cache_estimate(order, cache_cache.buffer_size,
@@ -2313,6 +2324,7 @@
 	if (flags & SLAB_CACHE_DMA)
 		cachep->gfpflags |= GFP_DMA;
 	cachep->buffer_size = size;
+	cachep->reciprocal_buffer_size = reciprocal_value(size);
 
 	if (flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB) {
 		cachep->slabp_cache = kmem_find_general_cachep(slab_size, 0u);