diff --git a/GPU/GPUTracking/Base/GPUReconstruction.cxx b/GPU/GPUTracking/Base/GPUReconstruction.cxx
index 3ef995b9f9561..c76bf11c3e25d 100644
--- a/GPU/GPUTracking/Base/GPUReconstruction.cxx
+++ b/GPU/GPUTracking/Base/GPUReconstruction.cxx
@@ -347,15 +347,22 @@ int32_t GPUReconstruction::InitPhaseBeforeDevice()
     mProcessingSettings->nTPCClustererLanes = GPUCA_NSECTORS;
   }
 
+  if (GetProcessingSettings().doublePipeline) {
+    mProcessingSettings->rtctech.allowOptimizedSlaveReconstruction = true;
+  }
   if (GetProcessingSettings().doublePipeline && (mChains.size() != 1 || mChains[0]->SupportsDoublePipeline() == false || !IsGPU() || GetProcessingSettings().memoryAllocationStrategy != GPUMemoryResource::ALLOCATION_GLOBAL)) {
     GPUError("Must use double pipeline mode only with exactly one chain that must support it");
     return 1;
   }
-
   if (mMaster == nullptr && GetProcessingSettings().doublePipeline) {
     mPipelineContext.reset(new GPUReconstructionPipelineContext);
   }
 
+  if (mMaster && GetProcessingSettings().rtc.enable && (GetProcessingSettings().rtc.optConstexpr || GetProcessingSettings().rtc.optSpecialCode) && !GetProcessingSettings().rtctech.allowOptimizedSlaveReconstruction) {
+    GPUError("Not allowed to create optimized RTC code with more than one GPUReconstruction instances");
+    return 1;
+  }
+
   mDeviceMemorySize = mHostMemorySize = 0;
   for (uint32_t i = 0; i < mChains.size(); i++) {
     if (mChains[i]->EarlyConfigure()) {
diff --git a/GPU/GPUTracking/Definitions/GPUSettingsList.h b/GPU/GPUTracking/Definitions/GPUSettingsList.h
index 9400a429fca81..b9be1db881816 100644
--- a/GPU/GPUTracking/Definitions/GPUSettingsList.h
+++ b/GPU/GPUTracking/Definitions/GPUSettingsList.h
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ AddOption(runTest, int32_t, 0, "", 0, "Do not run the actual benchmark, but just
 AddOption(cacheMutex, bool, true, "", 0, "Use a file lock to serialize access to the cache folder")
 AddOption(ignoreCacheValid, bool, false, "", 0, "If set, allows to use RTC cached code files even if they are not valid for the current source code / parameters")
 AddOption(printLaunchBounds, bool, false, "", 0, "Print launch bounds used for RTC code as debugging option")
+AddOption(allowOptimizedSlaveReconstruction, bool, false, "", 0, "Allow RTC with slave GPUReconstruction instances with optConstexpr and optSpecialcode")
 AddOption(cacheFolder, std::string, "./rtccache/", "", 0, "Folder in which the cache file is stored")
 AddOption(prependCommand, std::string, "", "", 0, "Prepend RTC compilation commands by this string")
 AddOption(overrideArchitecture, std::string, "", "", 0, "Override arhcitecture part of RTC compilation command line") // Part of cmdLine, so checked against the cache