diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index f2e92dc1c9ce3d1fe1ca8cdfe685684f5bc1005d..6ad6bd5a0b3ec929c0f7783332e5781ec6f147dd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1647,6 +1647,14 @@ static inline size_t calculate_slab_order(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 		cachep->gfporder = gfporder;
 		left_over = remainder;
 
+		/*
+		 * A VFS-reclaimable slab tends to have most allocations
+		 * as GFP_NOFS and we really don't want to have to be allocating
+		 * higher-order pages when we are unable to shrink dcache.
+		 */
+		if (flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
+			break;
+
 		/*
 		 * Large number of objects is good, but very large slabs are
 		 * currently bad for the gfp()s.
@@ -1869,17 +1877,7 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
 
 	size = ALIGN(size, align);
 
-	if ((flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) && size <= PAGE_SIZE) {
-		/*
-		 * A VFS-reclaimable slab tends to have most allocations
-		 * as GFP_NOFS and we really don't want to have to be allocating
-		 * higher-order pages when we are unable to shrink dcache.
-		 */
-		cachep->gfporder = 0;
-		cache_estimate(cachep->gfporder, size, align, flags,
-			       &left_over, &cachep->num);
-	} else
-		left_over = calculate_slab_order(cachep, size, align, flags);
+	left_over = calculate_slab_order(cachep, size, align, flags);
 
 	if (!cachep->num) {
 		printk("kmem_cache_create: couldn't create cache %s.\n", name);