diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestConsistentReadsObserver.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestConsistentReadsObserver.java
index 7ae388b3196..469da2b20c0 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestConsistentReadsObserver.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/ha/TestConsistentReadsObserver.java
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ public static void shutDownCluster() throws IOException {
 
   @Test
   public void testRequeueCall() throws Exception {
-    setObserverRead(true);
-
     // Update the configuration just for the observer, by enabling
     // IPC backoff and using the test scheduler class, which starts to backoff
     // after certain number of calls.