diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.td
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@
     }
   }];
 
+  let hasCanonicalizer = 1;
   let hasFolder = 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h
@@ -280,6 +280,9 @@
   /// This method erases an operation that is known to have no uses.
   virtual void eraseOp(Operation *op);
 
+  /// This method erases all operations in a block.
+  virtual void eraseBlock(Block *block);
+
   /// Merge the operations of block 'source' into the end of block 'dest'.
   /// 'source's predecessors must either be empty or only contain 'dest`.
   /// 'argValues' is used to replace the block arguments of 'source' after
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/Affine/IR/AffineOps.cpp
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
 /// Materialize a single constant operation from a given attribute value with
 /// the desired resultant type.
 Operation *AffineDialect::materializeConstant(OpBuilder &builder,
-                                                 Attribute value, Type type,
-                                                 Location loc) {
+                                              Attribute value, Type type,
+                                              Location loc) {
   return builder.create<ConstantOp>(loc, type, value);
 }
 
@@ -1566,6 +1566,25 @@
 // AffineIfOp
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
+namespace {
+/// Remove else blocks that have nothing other than the terminator.
+struct SimplifyDeadElse : public OpRewritePattern<AffineIfOp> {
+  using OpRewritePattern<AffineIfOp>::OpRewritePattern;
+
+  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(AffineIfOp ifOp,
+                                PatternRewriter &rewriter) const override {
+    if (ifOp.elseRegion().empty() ||
+        !has_single_element(ifOp.getElseBlock()->getOperations()))
+      return failure();
+
+    rewriter.startRootUpdate(ifOp);
+    rewriter.eraseBlock(ifOp.getElseBlock());
+    rewriter.finalizeRootUpdate(ifOp);
+    return success();
+  }
+};
+} // end anonymous namespace.
+
 static LogicalResult verify(AffineIfOp op) {
   // Verify that we have a condition attribute.
   auto conditionAttr =
@@ -1710,6 +1729,11 @@
   return failure();
 }
 
+void AffineIfOp::getCanonicalizationPatterns(OwningRewritePatternList &results,
+                                             MLIRContext *context) {
+  results.insert<SimplifyDeadElse>(context);
+}
+
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 // AffineLoadOp
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
diff --git a/mlir/lib/IR/PatternMatch.cpp b/mlir/lib/IR/PatternMatch.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/IR/PatternMatch.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/IR/PatternMatch.cpp
@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@
   op->erase();
 }
 
+void PatternRewriter::eraseBlock(Block *block) {
+  for (auto &op : llvm::make_early_inc_range(llvm::reverse(*block))) {
+    assert(op.use_empty() && "expected 'op' to have no uses");
+    eraseOp(&op);
+  }
+  block->erase();
+}
+
 /// Merge the operations of block 'source' into the end of block 'dest'.
 /// 'source's predecessors must be empty or only contain 'dest`.
 /// 'argValues' is used to replace the block arguments of 'source' after
diff --git a/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir b/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
--- a/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
+++ b/mlir/test/Transforms/canonicalize.mlir
@@ -895,3 +895,25 @@
   // CHECK: return %[[C4_I16]], %[[C4]] : i16, index
   return %1, %2 : i16, index
 }
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: func @remove_dead_else
+func @remove_dead_else(%M : memref<100 x i32>) {
+  affine.for %i = 0 to 100 {
+    affine.load %M[%i] : memref<100xi32>
+    affine.if affine_set<(d0) : (d0 - 2 >= 0)>(%i) {
+      affine.for %j = 0 to 100 {
+        affine.load %M[%j] : memref<100xi32>
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Nothing
+    }
+    affine.load %M[%i] : memref<100xi32>
+  }
+  return
+}
+// CHECK:      affine.if
+// CHECK-NEXT:   affine.for
+// CHECK-NEXT:     affine.load
+// CHECK-NEXT:   }
+// CHECK-NEXT: }
+// CHECK-NEXT: affine.load