--- old/src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp	2020-02-19 10:18:09.000000000 +0100
+++ new/src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp	2020-02-19 10:18:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -5155,6 +5155,10 @@
     }
   }
 
+  if (!UseNUMA && ForceNUMA) {
+    UseNUMA = true;
+  }
+
   if (UseParallelGC && UseNUMA && UseLargePages && !can_commit_large_page_memory()) {
     // With SHM and HugeTLBFS large pages we cannot uncommit a page, so there's no way
     // we can make the adaptive lgrp chunk resizing work. If the user specified both
@@ -5167,10 +5171,6 @@
       UseAdaptiveNUMAChunkSizing = false;
     }
   }
-
-  if (!UseNUMA && ForceNUMA) {
-    UseNUMA = true;
-  }
 }
 
 // this is called _after_ the global arguments have been parsed