diff --git a/src/operator/nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling.cc b/src/operator/nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling.cc
index 1b2449b137a6..ce5d0b1e6917 100644
--- a/src/operator/nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling.cc
+++ b/src/operator/nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling.cc
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ void MKLDNNPoolingFwd::Execute(const NDArray &in_data,
 
   if (this->with_workspace_) {
     auto engine = CpuEngine::Get()->get_engine();
+
+    if (workspace == nullptr) {
+        LOG(FATAL) << "MKLDNN Pooling: incorrect workspace input";
+    }
+
     auto ws = std::make_shared<mkldnn::memory>((*(this->fwd_pd_)).workspace_desc(),
                       engine, workspace->GetMKLDNNData()->get_data_handle());
     args[MKLDNN_ARG_WORKSPACE] = *ws;
diff --git a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_act.cc b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_act.cc
index bc69cb5e9bf7..9c2097ba7cf1 100644
--- a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_act.cc
+++ b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_act.cc
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  * \brief MKLDNN(Quantized) Activation operator based on subgraph
  * /author Zhiyuan Huang
 */
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
 
 #include "../../nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_act-inl.h"
 #include "../quantization_utils.h"
diff --git a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_flatten.cc b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_flatten.cc
index 31da936915e6..2416c128eddd 100644
--- a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_flatten.cc
+++ b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_flatten.cc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  * \brief
  */
 
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
 #include "../../nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_flatten-inl.h"
 #include "../quantization_utils.h"
 
diff --git a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_pooling.cc b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_pooling.cc
index 07e14412618d..4c62c97f5b39 100644
--- a/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_pooling.cc
+++ b/src/operator/quantization/mkldnn/mkldnn_quantized_pooling.cc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  * \author Tao Lv, Xinyu Chen
 */
 
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
 
 #include "../../nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling-inl.h"
 
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ static void MKLDNNQuantizedPoolingForward(const nnvm::NodeAttrs& attrs, const Op
     || in_data[0].dtype() == mshadow::kInt8)
     << "mkldnn_quantized_pooling op only supports uint8 and int8 as input type";
   const PoolingParam& param = nnvm::get<PoolingParam>(attrs.parsed);
-  auto fwd = GetPoolingFwd(param, ctx.is_train, in_data[0], out_data[0]);
-  fwd.SetNewMem(in_data[0], out_data[0], req[0]);
-  fwd.Execute(out_data[0]);
+  MKLDNNPoolingCompute(ctx, param, in_data[0], req[0], out_data[0], nullptr);
   out_data[1].data().dptr<float>()[0] = in_data[1].data().dptr<float>()[0];
   out_data[2].data().dptr<float>()[0] = in_data[2].data().dptr<float>()[0];
 }
diff --git a/src/operator/quantization/quantized_activation.cc b/src/operator/quantization/quantized_activation.cc
index 40a28d6bb018..f054bf0e1858 100644
--- a/src/operator/quantization/quantized_activation.cc
+++ b/src/operator/quantization/quantized_activation.cc
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ inline static bool QuantizedActivationStorageType(const nnvm::NodeAttrs &attrs,
   CHECK_EQ(in_attrs->size(), 3);
 
   *dispatch_mode = DispatchMode::kFCompute;
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
   const ActivationParam &param = nnvm::get<ActivationParam>(attrs.parsed);
   if (dev_mask == mshadow::cpu::kDevMask && param.act_type == activation::kReLU) {
     *dispatch_mode = DispatchMode::kFComputeEx;
diff --git a/src/operator/quantization/quantized_pooling.cc b/src/operator/quantization/quantized_pooling.cc
index 1839e2a29d77..8934ddb80d2a 100644
--- a/src/operator/quantization/quantized_pooling.cc
+++ b/src/operator/quantization/quantized_pooling.cc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 */
 #include <mxnet/op_attr_types.h>
 #include "../nn/pooling-inl.h"
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
 #include "../nn/mkldnn/mkldnn_pooling-inl.h"
 #endif
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ bool QuantizedPoolingType(const nnvm::NodeAttrs& attrs,
   CHECK_EQ(in_type->size(), 3U);
   CHECK_EQ(out_type->size(), 3U);
   if (param.pool_type == pool_enum::kMaxPooling || param.pool_type == pool_enum::kAvgPooling) {
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN  == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN  == 100
     TYPE_ASSIGN_CHECK(*out_type, 0, (*in_type)[0]);
 #else
     TYPE_ASSIGN_CHECK(*in_type, 0, mshadow::kInt8);
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ inline static bool QuantizedPoolingStorageType(const nnvm::NodeAttrs &attrs,
   CHECK_EQ(in_attrs->size(), 3);
 
   *dispatch_mode = DispatchMode::kFCompute;
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
+#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 100
   const PoolingParam &param = nnvm::get<PoolingParam>(attrs.parsed);
   if (dev_mask == mshadow::cpu::kDevMask && SupportMKLDNNPooling(param)) {
     *dispatch_mode = DispatchMode::kFComputeEx;