diff --git a/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp b/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp
index 2e212995f3e2f8d89f93f796aba2e3d8c8e92293..15d8befbbac6155c0897415979d2c51b62536b65 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@
   product_pd(intx,  LoopUnrollLimit,                                        \
           "Unroll loop bodies with node count less than this")              \
                                                                             \
+  product(intx,  LoopMaxUnroll, 16,                                         \
+          "Maximum number of unrolls for main loop")                        \
+                                                                            \
   product(intx,  LoopUnrollMin, 4,                                          \
           "Minimum number of unroll loop bodies before checking progress"   \
           "of rounds of unroll,optimize,..")                                \
diff --git a/src/share/vm/opto/loopTransform.cpp b/src/share/vm/opto/loopTransform.cpp
index c438cf9b88059057ad61f696c62cb82dabda5b40..a30fc80df39fe44803e0a29e8ae83ef91c9d835c 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/opto/loopTransform.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/loopTransform.cpp
@@ -624,8 +624,6 @@ bool IdealLoopTree::policy_maximally_unroll( PhaseIdealLoop *phase ) const {
 }
 
 
-#define MAX_UNROLL 16 // maximum number of unrolls for main loop
-
 //------------------------------policy_unroll----------------------------------
 // Return TRUE or FALSE if the loop should be unrolled or not.  Unroll if
 // the loop is a CountedLoop and the body is small enough.
@@ -642,7 +640,7 @@ bool IdealLoopTree::policy_unroll( PhaseIdealLoop *phase ) const {
   if (cl->trip_count() <= (uint)(cl->is_normal_loop() ? 2 : 1)) return false;
 
   int future_unroll_ct = cl->unrolled_count() * 2;
-  if (future_unroll_ct > MAX_UNROLL) return false;
+  if (future_unroll_ct > LoopMaxUnroll) return false;
 
   // Check for initial stride being a small enough constant
   if (abs(cl->stride_con()) > (1<<2)*future_unroll_ct) return false;