diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/glibc.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/glibc.py
index a65afb1367e..b8efa22fdac 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/glibc.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/glibc.py
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ class GlibcSelfTestBase(OESelftestTestCase, OEPTestResultTestCase):
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST = "{0}"'.format(ssh))
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST_USER = "root"')
             features.append('TOOLCHAIN_TEST_HOST_PORT = "22"')
-            # force single threaded test execution
-            features.append('EGLIBCPARALLELISM:task-check:pn-glibc-testsuite = "PARALLELMFLAGS="-j1""')
         self.write_config("\n".join(features))
 
         start_time = time.time()