diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 23199ca80b30..73f304d07885 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-04-17  Revital Eres  <revital.eres@linaro.org>
+
+	* params.def (sms-min-sc): New param flag.
+	* modulo-sched.c (sms_schedule): Use it.
+	* doc/invoke.texi (sms-min-sc): Document it.
+
 2011-04-17  Jan Hubicka  <jh@suse.cz>
 
 	* lto-symtab.c (lto_cgraph_replace_node): When call statement is
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 89eb525caa9e..7ca4405a18f4 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -8700,6 +8700,10 @@ through which the instruction may be pipelined.  The default value is 2.
 The maximum number of best instructions in the ready list that are considered
 for renaming in the selective scheduler.  The default value is 2.
 
+@item sms-min-sc
+The minimum value of stage count that swing modulo scheduler will
+generate.  The default value is 2.
+
 @item max-last-value-rtl
 The maximum size measured as number of RTLs that can be recorded in an expression
 in combiner for a pseudo register as last known value of that register.  The default
diff --git a/gcc/modulo-sched.c b/gcc/modulo-sched.c
index 73317444ff76..f37d743e2879 100644
--- a/gcc/modulo-sched.c
+++ b/gcc/modulo-sched.c
@@ -1162,9 +1162,10 @@ sms_schedule (void)
         gcc_assert(stage_count >= 1);
       }
 
-      /* Stage count of 1 means that there is no interleaving between
-         iterations, let the scheduling passes do the job.  */
-      if (stage_count <= 1
+      /* The default value of PARAM_SMS_MIN_SC is 2 as stage count of
+	 1 means that there is no interleaving between iterations thus
+	 we let the scheduling passes do the job in this case.  */
+      if (stage_count < (unsigned) PARAM_VALUE (PARAM_SMS_MIN_SC)
 	  || (count_init && (loop_count <= stage_count))
 	  || (flag_branch_probabilities && (trip_count <= stage_count)))
 	{
diff --git a/gcc/params.def b/gcc/params.def
index 81fdfcdf500a..5e8be211394a 100644
--- a/gcc/params.def
+++ b/gcc/params.def
@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_MAX_II_FACTOR,
 	 "sms-max-ii-factor",
 	 "A factor for tuning the upper bound that swing modulo scheduler uses for scheduling a loop",
 	 100, 0, 0)
+/* The minimum value of stage count that swing modulo scheduler will generate.  */
+DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_MIN_SC,
+        "sms-min-sc",
+        "The minimum value of stage count that swing modulo scheduler will generate.",
+        2, 1, 1)
 DEFPARAM(PARAM_SMS_DFA_HISTORY,
 	 "sms-dfa-history",
 	 "The number of cycles the swing modulo scheduler considers when checking conflicts using DFA",