diff --git a/gcc/common/config/s390/s390-common.cc
b/gcc/common/config/s390/s390-common.cc
index 72a5ef47eaac..be3e6f201429 100644
--- a/gcc/common/config/s390/s390-common.cc
+++ b/gcc/common/config/s390/s390-common.cc
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ static const struct default_options
s390_option_optimization_table[] =
     /* Enable -fsched-pressure by default when optimizing.  */
     { OPT_LEVELS_1_PLUS, OPT_fsched_pressure, NULL, 1 },

+    /* Enable -munroll-only-small-loops with -funroll-loops to unroll small
+       loops at -O2 and above by default.  */
+    { OPT_LEVELS_2_PLUS_SPEED_ONLY, OPT_funroll_loops, NULL, 1 },
+    { OPT_LEVELS_2_PLUS_SPEED_ONLY, OPT_munroll_only_small_loops, NULL,
1 },
+
     /* ??? There are apparently still problems with -fcaller-saves.  */
     { OPT_LEVELS_ALL, OPT_fcaller_saves, NULL, 0 },

diff --git a/gcc/config/s390/s390.cc b/gcc/config/s390/s390.cc
index 5644600edf3d..ef38fbe68c84 100644
--- a/gcc/config/s390/s390.cc
+++ b/gcc/config/s390/s390.cc
@@ -15457,6 +15457,21 @@ s390_loop_unroll_adjust (unsigned nunroll,
struct loop *loop)
   if (s390_tune < PROCESSOR_2097_Z10)
     return nunroll;

+  if (unroll_only_small_loops)
+    {
+      /* Only unroll loops smaller than or equal to 12 insns.  */
+      const unsigned int small_threshold = 12;
+
+      if (loop->ninsns > small_threshold)
+	return 0;
+
+      /* ???: Make this dependent on the type of registers in
+	 the loop.  Increase the limit for vector registers.  */
+      const unsigned int max_insns = optimize >= 3 ? 36 : 24;
+
+      nunroll = MIN (nunroll, max_insns / loop->ninsns);
+    }
+
   /* Count the number of memory references within the loop body.  */
   bbs = get_loop_body (loop);
   subrtx_iterator::array_type array;
@@ -15531,6 +15546,19 @@ static void
 s390_override_options_after_change (void)
 {
   s390_default_align (&global_options);
+
+  /* Explicit -funroll-loops turns -munroll-only-small-loops off.  */
+  if ((OPTION_SET_P (flag_unroll_loops) && flag_unroll_loops)
+       || (OPTION_SET_P (flag_unroll_all_loops)
+	   && flag_unroll_all_loops))
+    {
+      if (!OPTION_SET_P (unroll_only_small_loops))
+	unroll_only_small_loops = 0;
+      if (!OPTION_SET_P (flag_cunroll_grow_size))
+	flag_cunroll_grow_size = 1;
+    }
+  else if (!OPTION_SET_P (flag_cunroll_grow_size))
+    flag_cunroll_grow_size = flag_peel_loops || optimize >= 3;
 }

 static void
@@ -15740,6 +15768,9 @@ s390_option_override_internal (struct
gcc_options *opts,
   /* Set the default alignment.  */
   s390_default_align (opts);

+  /* Set unroll options.  */
+  s390_override_options_after_change ();
+
   /* Call target specific restore function to do post-init work.  At
the moment,
      this just sets opts->x_s390_cost_pointer.  */
   s390_function_specific_restore (opts, opts_set, NULL);
diff --git a/gcc/config/s390/s390.opt b/gcc/config/s390/s390.opt
index 9e8d3bfd404c..c375b9c5f729 100644
--- a/gcc/config/s390/s390.opt
+++ b/gcc/config/s390/s390.opt
@@ -321,3 +321,7 @@ and the default behavior is to emit separate
multiplication and addition
 instructions for long doubles in vector registers, because measurements
show
 that this improves performance.  This option allows overriding it for
testing
 purposes.
+
+munroll-only-small-loops
+Target Undocumented Var(unroll_only_small_loops) Init(0) Save
+; Use conservative small loop unrolling.
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/vector/vec-copysign.c
b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/vector/vec-copysign.c
index 64c6970c23e2..b723ceb13be9 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/vector/vec-copysign.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/vector/vec-copysign.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* { dg-do compile { target { s390*-*-* } } } */
-/* { dg-options "-O2 -ftree-vectorize -mzarch" } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2 -ftree-vectorize -mzarch -fno-unroll-loops" } */
 /* { dg-final { scan-assembler-times "vgmg" 1 } } */
 /* { dg-final { scan-assembler-times "vgmf" 1 } } */
 /* { dg-final { scan-assembler-times "vsel" 2 } } */
diff --git
a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-quiet-uneq.c
b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-quiet-uneq.c
index 7c9b20fd2e0f..8948be28ed5d 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-quiet-uneq.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-quiet-uneq.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z13 -mzvector -mzarch" } */
+/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z13 -mzvector -mzarch -fno-unroll-loops" } */

 #include "autovec.h"

diff --git
a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-signaling-ltgt.c
b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-signaling-ltgt.c
index 9dfae8f2f7e7..9417b0c4838f 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-signaling-ltgt.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-double-signaling-ltgt.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch" } */
+/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch -fno-unroll-loops" } */

 #include "autovec.h"

diff --git
a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-quiet-uneq.c
b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-quiet-uneq.c
index 5ab9337880d0..0a2aca0d5dd3 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-quiet-uneq.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-quiet-uneq.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch" } */
+/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch -fno-unroll-loops" } */

 #include "autovec.h"

diff --git
a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-signaling-ltgt.c
b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-signaling-ltgt.c
index c34cf0916087..15e61b70b0bd 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-signaling-ltgt.c
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/s390/zvector/autovec-float-signaling-ltgt.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* { dg-do compile } */
-/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch" } */
+/* { dg-options "-O3 -march=z14 -mzvector -mzarch -fno-unroll-loops" } */

 #include "autovec.h"

