diff --git a/lib/Dialect/TritonGPU/Transforms/Utility.cpp b/lib/Dialect/TritonGPU/Transforms/Utility.cpp
index fe019fae40a2..f775936045ab 100644
--- a/lib/Dialect/TritonGPU/Transforms/Utility.cpp
+++ b/lib/Dialect/TritonGPU/Transforms/Utility.cpp
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ bool expensiveToRemat(Operation *op, Attribute &targetEncoding) {
     return expensiveLoadOrStore(op, targetEncoding);
   if (isa<tensor::ExtractSliceOp, triton::gpu::AllocTensorOp,
           triton::gpu::InsertSliceAsyncOp, triton::AtomicRMWOp,
-          triton::AtomicCASOp, triton::DotOp>(op))
+          triton::AtomicCASOp, triton::DotOp, triton::ReduceOp>(op))
     return true;
   if (isa<scf::YieldOp, scf::ForOp, scf::IfOp, scf::WhileOp, scf::ConditionOp>(
           op))
diff --git a/test/TritonGPU/combine.mlir b/test/TritonGPU/combine.mlir
index 35c389239508..190e687b7591 100644
--- a/test/TritonGPU/combine.mlir
+++ b/test/TritonGPU/combine.mlir
@@ -1013,12 +1013,15 @@ module attributes {"triton_gpu.num-warps" = 2 : i32} {
     %1 = triton_gpu.convert_layout %0 : (tensor<2xi32, #blocked1>) -> tensor<2xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 0, parent = #blocked}>>
     %2 = tt.expand_dims %1 {axis = 0 : i32} : (tensor<2xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 0, parent = #blocked}>>) -> tensor<1x2xi32, #blocked>
     %3 = "triton_gpu.cmpi"(%2, %cst_0) {predicate = 2 : i64} : (tensor<1x2xi32, #blocked>, tensor<1x2xi32, #blocked>) -> tensor<1x2xi1, #blocked>
+    // CHECK-DAG: }) {axis = 1 : i32}
     %4 = "tt.reduce" (%cst) ({
     ^bb0(%arg3: i32, %arg4: i32):
       %add = arith.addi %arg3, %arg4 : i32
       tt.reduce.return %add : i32
     }) {axis = 1 : i32} : (tensor<1x2xi32, #blocked>) -> tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked}>>
+    // CHECK-NEXT: triton_gpu.convert_layout {{%.*}} : (tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked1}>>) -> tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked}>>
     %5 = triton_gpu.convert_layout %4 : (tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked}>>) -> tensor<1xi32, #blocked1>
+    // CHECK-NOT: triton_gpu.convert_layout
     %6 = triton_gpu.convert_layout %5 : (tensor<1xi32, #blocked1>) -> tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked2}>>
     %7 = tt.expand_dims %6 {axis = 1 : i32} : (tensor<1xi32, #triton_gpu.slice<{dim = 1, parent = #blocked2}>>) -> tensor<1x1xi32, #blocked2>
     %8 = triton_gpu.convert_layout %7 : (tensor<1x1xi32, #blocked2>) -> tensor<1x1xi32, #blocked>