diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index a1c15797c3f..c7ec79d87a9 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -219,6 +219,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     YARN-372. Move InlineDispatcher from hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager to
     hadoop-yarn-common (sseth via hitesh)
 
+    YARN-370. Fix SchedulerUtils to correctly round up the resource for
+    containers. (Zhijie Shen via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerUtils.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerUtils.java
index e1bb437763e..f651566d657 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerUtils.java
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ public static void normalizeRequest(
     Resource normalized = 
         Resources.normalize(
             resourceCalculator, ask.getCapability(), minimumResource);
-    ask.setCapability(normalized);
+    ask.getCapability().setMemory(normalized.getMemory());
+    ask.getCapability().setVirtualCores(normalized.getVirtualCores());
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/TestSchedulerUtils.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/TestSchedulerUtils.java
index 681e8d01698..bc806f60a2e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/TestSchedulerUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/TestSchedulerUtils.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ResourceRequest;
@@ -42,23 +43,35 @@ public void testNormalizeRequest() {
 
     // case negative memory
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(-1024));
+    Resource before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(ask, resourceCalculator, null, minResource);
+    Resource after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(minMemory, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
     // case zero memory
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(0));
+    before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(ask, resourceCalculator, null, minResource);
+    after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(minMemory, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
     // case memory is a multiple of minMemory
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(2 * minMemory));
+    before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(ask, resourceCalculator, null, minResource);
+    after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(2 * minMemory, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
     // case memory is not a multiple of minMemory
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(minMemory + 10));
+    before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(ask, resourceCalculator, null, minResource);
+    after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(2 * minMemory, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
   }
   
@@ -73,24 +86,33 @@ public void testNormalizeRequestWithDominantResourceCalculator() {
 
     // case negative memory/vcores
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(-1024, -1));
+    Resource before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(
         ask, resourceCalculator, clusterResource, minResource);
+    Resource after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(minResource, ask.getCapability());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
     // case zero memory/vcores
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(0, 0));
+    before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(
         ask, resourceCalculator, clusterResource, minResource);
+    after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(minResource, ask.getCapability());
     assertEquals(1, ask.getCapability().getVirtualCores());
     assertEquals(1024, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
 
     // case non-zero memory & zero cores
     ask.setCapability(Resources.createResource(1536, 0));
+    before = ask.getCapability();
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeRequest(
         ask, resourceCalculator, clusterResource, minResource);
+    after = ask.getCapability();
     assertEquals(Resources.createResource(2048, 1), ask.getCapability());
     assertEquals(1, ask.getCapability().getVirtualCores());
     assertEquals(2048, ask.getCapability().getMemory());
+    assertTrue(before == after);
   }
 }