diff -Naurp a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c	Wed Jul 17 12:25:04 2002
+++ b/mm/slab.c	Wed Jul 17 12:25:04 2002
@@ -399,10 +399,10 @@
 		base = sizeof(slab_t);
 		extra = sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t);
 	}
-	i = 0;
+       i = (wastage - base)/(size + extra);
 	while (i*size + L1_CACHE_ALIGN(base+i*extra) <= wastage)
 		i++;
-	if (i > 0)
+       while (i*size + L1_CACHE_ALIGN(base+i*extra) > wastage)
 		i--;
 
 	if (i > SLAB_LIMIT)