diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
index 4ea2c3e0554c6bda3fe54aaa95f695122b1c5b9a..27708ffbe44d38aaa6c504c766e6a72917cf45cc 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunSyncLoop(
 }
 
 void ListenAndServOp::RunAsyncLoop(framework::Executor *executor,
-                                   framework::ProgramDesc *program) const {
+                                   framework::ProgramDesc *program,
+                                   framework::Scope *recv_scope) const {
   // grad name to block id
   std::unordered_map<std::string, int32_t> grad_to_block_id;
   std::unordered_map<int32_t, std::string> id_to_grad;
@@ -190,6 +191,10 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunAsyncLoop(framework::Executor *executor,
     block_list.push_back(blkid);
   }
   auto optimize_prepared = executor->Prepare(*program, block_list);
+  // execute global block if needed
+  if (block_list[0] == 1 && id_to_grad.count(1) == 0) {
+    executor->RunPreparedContext(optimize_prepared[0].get(), recv_scope);
+  }
   std::unordered_map<std::string,
                      std::shared_ptr<framework::ExecutorPrepareContext>>
       grad_to_prepared_ctx;
@@ -317,7 +322,7 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunImpl(const framework::Scope &scope,
   if (sync_mode) {
     RunSyncLoop(&executor, program, &recv_scope, prefetch_block_id_list);
   } else {
-    RunAsyncLoop(&executor, program);
+    RunAsyncLoop(&executor, program, &recv_scope);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h
index 634c1b4f4b541be9f4950a9ef48f944863486705..f856fdc376196c736593eb8f941c1197d043f7c5 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ class ListenAndServOp : public framework::OperatorBase {
                    const std::vector<int>& prefetch_block_id_list) const;
 
   void RunAsyncLoop(framework::Executor* executor,
-                    framework::ProgramDesc* program) const;
+                    framework::ProgramDesc* program,
+                    framework::Scope* recv_scope) const;
 
   void SavePort() const;
 
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/transpiler/distribute_transpiler.py b/python/paddle/fluid/transpiler/distribute_transpiler.py
index 930cdabf117d6b591b682048720f6238d50690f9..20c7ea26b2b0ce2f664bc242f4ab4cbdde5c84e8 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/transpiler/distribute_transpiler.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/transpiler/distribute_transpiler.py
@@ -1299,16 +1299,6 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
                     ufind.union(op1, op2)
         return ufind
 
-    def _is_opt_role_op(self, op):
-        # NOTE: depend on oprole to find out whether this op is for
-        # optimize
-        op_maker = core.op_proto_and_checker_maker
-        optimize_role = core.op_proto_and_checker_maker.OpRole.Optimize
-        if op_maker.kOpRoleAttrName() in op.attrs and \
-            int(op.attrs[op_maker.kOpRoleAttrName()]) == int(optimize_role):
-            return True
-        return False
-
     def _is_optimizer_op(self, op):
         if "Param" in op.input_names and \
             "LearningRate" in op.input_names:
@@ -1399,7 +1389,10 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
         params_grads = []
         origin_var_dict = self.origin_program.global_block().vars
         for op in block.ops:
-            if self._is_opt_role_op(op):
+            # NOTE(Yancey1989): we can not use op role to distinguish an optimizer op
+            # or not, because all ops in optimizer sub-graph would
+            # sign the optimizer op role
+            if self._is_optimizer_op(op):
                 opt_ops.append(op)
                 # HACK(wuyi): if we find grad vars from input of optimize
                 # ops, we may get the output of clip op. Use syntax "@GRAD"