diff --git a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
index 8c62897037b6ddf99dd6bc8b9baa973bcd871082..8b910fbc5a423fab4a9f2ad9a44d7eab52c6ea17 100644
--- a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
@@ -300,6 +300,18 @@ class VertexRDD[@specialized VD: ClassTag](
   def reverseRoutingTables(): VertexRDD[VD] =
     this.mapVertexPartitions(vPart => vPart.withRoutingTable(vPart.routingTable.reverse))
 
+  /** Prepares this VertexRDD for efficient joins with the given EdgeRDD. */
+  def withEdges(edges: EdgeRDD[_, _]): VertexRDD[VD] = {
+    val routingTables = VertexRDD.createRoutingTables(edges, this.partitioner.get)
+    val vertexPartitions = partitionsRDD.zipPartitions(routingTables, true) {
+      (partIter, routingTableIter) =>
+        val routingTable =
+          if (routingTableIter.hasNext) routingTableIter.next() else RoutingTablePartition.empty
+        partIter.map(_.withRoutingTable(routingTable))
+    }
+    new VertexRDD(vertexPartitions)
+  }
+
   /** Generates an RDD of vertex attributes suitable for shipping to the edge partitions. */
   private[graphx] def shipVertexAttributes(
       shipSrc: Boolean, shipDst: Boolean): RDD[(PartitionID, VertexAttributeBlock[VD])] = {
diff --git a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/GraphImpl.scala b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/GraphImpl.scala
index 2f2d0e03fd7b5b03d1e29751b1e87e4e7f17d687..1649b244d2881395f9762f6cc42b96082c0a5eea 100644
--- a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/GraphImpl.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/GraphImpl.scala
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ class GraphImpl[VD: ClassTag, ED: ClassTag] protected (
         }
         val edgePartition = builder.toEdgePartition
         Iterator((pid, edgePartition))
-      }, preservesPartitioning = true))
-    GraphImpl.fromExistingRDDs(vertices, newEdges)
+      }, preservesPartitioning = true)).cache()
+    GraphImpl.fromExistingRDDs(vertices.withEdges(newEdges), newEdges)
   }
 
   override def reverse: Graph[VD, ED] = {
@@ -277,7 +277,11 @@ object GraphImpl {
     GraphImpl(vertexRDD, edgeRDD)
   }
 
-  /** Create a graph from a VertexRDD and an EdgeRDD with arbitrary replicated vertices. */
+  /**
+   * Create a graph from a VertexRDD and an EdgeRDD with arbitrary replicated vertices. The
+   * VertexRDD must already be set up for efficient joins with the EdgeRDD by calling
+   * `VertexRDD.withEdges` or an appropriate VertexRDD constructor.
+   */
   def apply[VD: ClassTag, ED: ClassTag](
       vertices: VertexRDD[VD],
       edges: EdgeRDD[ED, _]): GraphImpl[VD, ED] = {
@@ -290,7 +294,8 @@ object GraphImpl {
 
   /**
    * Create a graph from a VertexRDD and an EdgeRDD with the same replicated vertex type as the
-   * vertices.
+   * vertices. The VertexRDD must already be set up for efficient joins with the EdgeRDD by calling
+   * `VertexRDD.withEdges` or an appropriate VertexRDD constructor.
    */
   def fromExistingRDDs[VD: ClassTag, ED: ClassTag](
       vertices: VertexRDD[VD],
diff --git a/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/GraphSuite.scala b/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/GraphSuite.scala
index 7b9bac5d9c8ea22c0a6c62fd49c7ce9544922c75..abc25d0671133986adaf814b651672ee5beaf3bc 100644
--- a/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/GraphSuite.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/GraphSuite.scala
@@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ class GraphSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
         Iterator((part.srcIds ++ part.dstIds).toSet)
       }.collect
       assert(verts.exists(id => partitionSetsUnpartitioned.count(_.contains(id)) > bound))
+
+      // Forming triplets view
+      val g = Graph(
+        sc.parallelize(List((0L, "a"), (1L, "b"), (2L, "c"))),
+        sc.parallelize(List(Edge(0L, 1L, 1), Edge(0L, 2L, 1)), 2))
+      assert(g.triplets.collect.map(_.toTuple).toSet ===
+        Set(((0L, "a"), (1L, "b"), 1), ((0L, "a"), (2L, "c"), 1)))
+      val gPart = g.partitionBy(EdgePartition2D)
+      assert(gPart.triplets.collect.map(_.toTuple).toSet ===
+        Set(((0L, "a"), (1L, "b"), 1), ((0L, "a"), (2L, "c"), 1)))
     }
   }