diff --git a/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/CMakeLists.txt b/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
   ${source_directory}/Workshare.cpp
 )
 
-set(clang_opt_flags -O1 -mllvm -openmp-opt-disable -DSHARED_SCRATCHPAD_SIZE=2048)
+set(clang_opt_flags -O1 -mllvm -openmp-opt-disable -DSHARED_SCRATCHPAD_SIZE=512)
 set(link_opt_flags  -O1        -openmp-opt-disable)
 
 # Prepend -I to each list element
diff --git a/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/src/State.cpp b/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/src/State.cpp
--- a/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/src/State.cpp
+++ b/openmp/libomptarget/DeviceRTL/src/State.cpp
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@
     return Ptr;
   }
 
+  if (config::isDebugMode(config::DebugKind::CommonIssues))
+    PRINT("Shared memory stack full, fallback to dynamic allocation of global "
+          "memory will negatively impact performance.");
   void *GlobalMemory = memory::allocGlobal(
       AlignedBytes, "Slow path shared memory allocation, insufficient "
                     "shared memory stack memory!");