diff --git a/libs/pcre/Config.in b/libs/pcre/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..15e75fc75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/pcre/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+config PCRE_JIT_ENABLED
+	bool
+	depends on PACKAGE_libpcre && (arm || i386 || i686 || x86_64 || mips || mipsel || powerpc || sparc)
+	default y if (arm || i686 || x86_64)
+	prompt "Enable JIT compiler support"
+	help
+		Enable JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler support.
+
+		Enabling this option can give an about 10x performance increase on JIT operations. It can be desireable for e.g. high performance Apache mod_rewrite or HA-Proxy reqrep operations.
+
+		However, JIT should _only_ be enabled on architectures that are supported. Enabling JIT on unsupported platforms will result in a compilation failure. A list of supported architectures can be found here: https://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrejit.html#SEC3 .
diff --git a/libs/pcre/Makefile b/libs/pcre/Makefile
index 720142332..907fbbbfc 100644
--- a/libs/pcre/Makefile
+++ b/libs/pcre/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=pcre
 PKG_VERSION:=8.43
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@SF/$(PKG_NAME)
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
 
 PKG_INSTALL:=1
 
-PKG_CONFIG_DEPENDS := CONFIG_PACKAGE_libpcrecpp
+PKG_CONFIG_DEPENDS:=\
+	CONFIG_PACKAGE_libpcrecpp \
+	CONFIG_PCRE_JIT_ENABLED
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/uclibc++.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
@@ -35,6 +37,10 @@ define Package/libpcre/default
   URL:=https://www.pcre.org/
 endef
 
+define Package/libpcre/config
+  source "$(SOURCE)/Config.in"
+endef
+
 define Package/libpcre
   $(call Package/libpcre/default)
   TITLE:=A Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
@@ -57,6 +63,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
 	--enable-utf8 \
 	--enable-unicode-properties \
 	--enable-pcre16 \
+	$(if $(CONFIG_PCRE_JIT_ENABLED),--enable-jit,--disable-jit) \
 	--with-match-limit-recursion=16000 \
 	$(if $(CONFIG_PACKAGE_libpcrecpp),--enable,--disable)-cpp