diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/SLSUtils.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/SLSUtils.java
index 922370ce3f9..d950aeeb929 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/SLSUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/SLSUtils.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability.Unstable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.net.NodeBase;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.rumen.JobTraceReader;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.rumen.LoggedJob;
 import org.apache.hadoop.tools.rumen.LoggedTask;
@@ -43,9 +44,15 @@ import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 @Unstable
 public class SLSUtils {
 
+  // hostname includes the network path and the host name. for example
+  // "/default-rack/hostFoo" or "/coreSwitchA/TORSwitchB/hostBar".
+  // the function returns two Strings, the first element is the network
+  // location without "/", the second element is the host name. for example,
+  // {"default-rack", "hostFoo"} or "coreSwitchA/TORSwitchB", "hostBar"
   public static String[] getRackHostName(String hostname) {
-    hostname = hostname.substring(1);
-    return hostname.split("/");
+    NodeBase node = new NodeBase(hostname);
+    return new String[] {node.getNetworkLocation().substring(1),
+        node.getName()};
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/nodemanager/TestNMSimulator.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/nodemanager/TestNMSimulator.java
index 2381549b1c3..f9a393298eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/nodemanager/TestNMSimulator.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/nodemanager/TestNMSimulator.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class TestNMSimulator {
   public void testNMSimulator() throws Exception {
     // Register one node
     NMSimulator node1 = new NMSimulator();
-    node1.init("rack1/node1", GB * 10, 10, 0, 1000, rm);
+    node1.init("/rack1/node1", GB * 10, 10, 0, 1000, rm);
     node1.middleStep();
 
     int numClusterNodes = rm.getResourceScheduler().getNumClusterNodes();
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/TestSLSUtils.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/TestSLSUtils.java
index 498615a7691..f4eda679586 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/TestSLSUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-sls/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/sls/utils/TestSLSUtils.java
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ public class TestSLSUtils {
     String rackHostname[] = SLSUtils.getRackHostName(str);
     Assert.assertEquals(rackHostname[0], "rack1");
     Assert.assertEquals(rackHostname[1], "node1");
+
+    str = "/rackA/rackB/node1";
+    rackHostname = SLSUtils.getRackHostName(str);
+    Assert.assertEquals(rackHostname[0], "rackA/rackB");
+    Assert.assertEquals(rackHostname[1], "node1");
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 178ad41e510..6e270302915 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ Release 2.9.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3446. FairScheduler headroom calculation should exclude nodes in the 
     blacklist. (Zhihai Xu via kasha)
 
+    YARN-4611. Fix scheduler load simulator to support multi-layer network
+    location. (Ming Ma via xgong)
+
 Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES