diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9ce82e51d3f41e25caab4c6f7300ce2bfe7077bf..37cce8746ab636bb1c163acd40173e4634687f77 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ option(WITH_GOLANG      "Compile PaddlePaddle with GOLANG"              OFF)
 option(GLIDE_INSTALL    "Download and install go dependencies "         ON)
 option(WITH_DISTRIBUTE  "Compile with distributed support"              OFF)
 option(WITH_PSLIB       "Compile with pslib support"                    OFF)
-option(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS   "Use matrix multiplication in Eigen"        OFF)
 option(EIGEN_USE_THREADS "Compile with multi-threaded Eigen"            OFF)
 option(WITH_ARM_FP16    "Use half precision support on armv8.2-a cpu"   OFF)
 option(WITH_CONTRIB     "Compile the third-party contributation"        OFF)
diff --git a/cmake/configure.cmake b/cmake/configure.cmake
index fdc9e38f4b52fe247e51842b975da58cd57e72e4..cc5ee3f6549bc77e83d3d947daf241fd70082329 100644
--- a/cmake/configure.cmake
+++ b/cmake/configure.cmake
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ if(NOT WITH_TIMER)
     add_definitions(-DPADDLE_DISABLE_TIMER)
 endif(NOT WITH_TIMER)
 
-if(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS)
-    add_definitions(-DPADDLE_USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS)
-endif(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS)
-
 if(EIGEN_USE_THREADS)
     add_definitions(-DEIGEN_USE_THREADS)
 endif(EIGEN_USE_THREADS)
diff --git a/cmake/external/openblas.cmake b/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
index b347a592929836a473ac764c0af1153b07d54258..f4c2a406f0288ff2b03bced4299a3c1b28d76aa6 100644
--- a/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/openblas.cmake
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
-
-IF(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS)
-    return()
-ENDIF(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS)
-
 INCLUDE(cblas)
 
 IF(NOT ${CBLAS_FOUND})