diff --git a/onnxruntime/test/perftest/performance_runner.cc b/onnxruntime/test/perftest/performance_runner.cc
index e0f52f9221..7820639946 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/test/perftest/performance_runner.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/test/perftest/performance_runner.cc
@@ -143,9 +143,6 @@ Status PerformanceRunner::ForkJoinRepeat() {
   std::condition_variable cv;
 
   // Fork
-  counter.load(std::memory_order_seq_cst);
-  requests.load(std::memory_order_seq_cst);
-
   for (size_t i = 0; i != run_config.concurrent_session_runs; ++i) {
     counter++;
     tpool->Schedule([this, &counter, &requests, &m, &cv, &run_config]() {