diff a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp
@@ -189,13 +189,10 @@
                                                                             \
   product(size_t, NUMAInterleaveGranularity, 2*M,                           \
           "Granularity to use for NUMA interleaving on Windows OS")         \
           range(os::vm_allocation_granularity(), NOT_LP64(2*G) LP64_ONLY(8192*G)) \
                                                                             \
-  product(bool, ForceNUMA, false,                                           \
-          "(Deprecated) Force NUMA optimizations on single-node/UMA systems") \
-                                                                            \
   product(uintx, NUMAChunkResizeWeight, 20,                                 \
           "Percentage (0-100) used to weight the current sample when "      \
           "computing exponentially decaying average for "                   \
           "AdaptiveNUMAChunkSizing")                                        \
           range(0, 100)                                                     \