diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index da95c60ec05..e6570366028 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6348. SecondaryNameNode not terminating properly on runtime exceptions
     (Rakesh R via vinayakumarb)
 
+    HDFS-8454. Remove unnecessary throttling in TestDatanodeDeath.
+    (Arpit Agarwal)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeDeath.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeDeath.java
index 5a9b0e90015..5cbc2167713 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeDeath.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDatanodeDeath.java
@@ -363,7 +363,6 @@ public class TestDatanodeDeath {
 
       // these are test settings
       dfstream.setChunksPerPacket(5);
-      dfstream.setArtificialSlowdown(3000);
 
       final long myseed = AppendTestUtil.nextLong();
       byte[] buffer = AppendTestUtil.randomBytes(myseed, fileSize);