diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
index 48170fa908fd6..25fd940584624 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/CommonArgs.cpp
@@ -631,6 +631,7 @@ void tools::addLTOOptions(const ToolChain &ToolChain, const ArgList &Args,
 
   const char *PluginOptPrefix = IsOSAIX ? "-bplugin_opt:" : "-plugin-opt=";
   const char *ExtraDash = IsOSAIX ? "-" : "";
+  const char *ParallelismOpt = IsOSAIX ? "-threads=" : "jobs=";
 
   // Note, this solution is far from perfect, better to encode it into IR
   // metadata, but this may not be worth it, since it looks like aranges is on
@@ -690,8 +691,8 @@ void tools::addLTOOptions(const ToolChain &ToolChain, const ArgList &Args,
 
   StringRef Parallelism = getLTOParallelism(Args, D);
   if (!Parallelism.empty())
-    CmdArgs.push_back(
-        Args.MakeArgString(Twine(PluginOptPrefix) + "jobs=" + Parallelism));
+    CmdArgs.push_back(Args.MakeArgString(Twine(PluginOptPrefix) +
+                                         ParallelismOpt + Parallelism));
 
   // If an explicit debugger tuning argument appeared, pass it along.
   if (Arg *A =
diff --git a/clang/test/Driver/lto-jobs.c b/clang/test/Driver/lto-jobs.c
index 73d7a94dd289c..43a478b0664d8 100644
--- a/clang/test/Driver/lto-jobs.c
+++ b/clang/test/Driver/lto-jobs.c
@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@
 // RUN: FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK-LINK-THIN-JOBS2-ACTION < %t %s
 //
 // CHECK-LINK-THIN-JOBS2-ACTION: "-mllvm" "-threads={{[0-9]+}}"
+
+// RUN: %clang --target=powerpc-ibm-aix -### %s -flto=thin -flto-jobs=5 2> %t
+// RUN: FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK-AIX-LINK-THIN-JOBS-ACTION < %t %s
+//
+// CHECK-AIX-LINK-THIN-JOBS-ACTION: "-bplugin_opt:-threads=5"