diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 409178e9f51..e1af21d9333 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3723. Need to clearly document primaryFilter and otherInfo value type.
     (Zhijie Shen via xgong)
 
+    YARN-3489. RMServerUtils.validateResourceRequests should only obtain queue 
+    info once. (Varun Saxena via wangda)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     YARN-3006. Improve the error message when attempting manual failover with 
@@ -86,7 +89,6 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3493. RM fails to come up with error "Failed to load/recover state" 
     when mem settings are changed. (Jian He via wangda)
 
-<<<<<<< HEAD
     YARN-3626. On Windows localized resources are not moved to the front
     of the classpath when they should be. (Craig Welch via xgong)
 
@@ -1131,7 +1133,6 @@ Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
     YARN-2406. Move RM recovery related proto to
     yarn_server_resourcemanager_recovery.proto. (Tsuyoshi Ozawa via jianhe)
 
-<<<<<<< HEAD
     YARN-1506. Changed RMNode/SchedulerNode to update resource with event
     notification. (Junping Du via jianhe)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMServerUtils.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMServerUtils.java
index 4669a28e38d..fd17153d920 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMServerUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/RMServerUtils.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationAttemptId;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationResourceUsageReport;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ContainerId;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.NodeState;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.QueueInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ResourceBlacklistRequest;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ResourceRequest;
@@ -94,9 +95,16 @@ public class RMServerUtils {
       Resource maximumResource, String queueName, YarnScheduler scheduler,
       RMContext rmContext)
       throws InvalidResourceRequestException {
+
+    QueueInfo queueInfo = null;
+    try {
+      queueInfo = scheduler.getQueueInfo(queueName, false, false);
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+    }
+
     for (ResourceRequest resReq : ask) {
       SchedulerUtils.normalizeAndvalidateRequest(resReq, maximumResource,
-          queueName, scheduler, rmContext);
+          queueName, scheduler, rmContext, queueInfo);
     }
   }
 
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 45730be879c..071f2938108 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
@@ -212,28 +212,46 @@ public class SchedulerUtils {
 
   public static void normalizeAndValidateRequest(ResourceRequest resReq,
       Resource maximumResource, String queueName, YarnScheduler scheduler,
-      boolean isRecovery, RMContext rmContext)
+      boolean isRecovery, RMContext rmContext, QueueInfo queueInfo)
       throws InvalidResourceRequestException {
 
-    QueueInfo queueInfo = null;
-    try {
-      queueInfo = scheduler.getQueueInfo(queueName, false, false);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      // it is possible queue cannot get when queue mapping is set, just ignore
-      // the queueInfo here, and move forward
+    if (queueInfo == null) {
+      try {
+        queueInfo = scheduler.getQueueInfo(queueName, false, false);
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        // it is possible queue cannot get when queue mapping is set, just ignore
+        // the queueInfo here, and move forward
+      }
     }
     SchedulerUtils.normalizeNodeLabelExpressionInRequest(resReq, queueInfo);
     if (!isRecovery) {
       validateResourceRequest(resReq, maximumResource, queueInfo, rmContext);
     }
   }
+  
+  public static void normalizeAndValidateRequest(ResourceRequest resReq,
+      Resource maximumResource, String queueName, YarnScheduler scheduler,
+      boolean isRecovery, RMContext rmContext)
+      throws InvalidResourceRequestException {
+    normalizeAndValidateRequest(resReq, maximumResource, queueName, scheduler,
+        isRecovery, rmContext, null);
+  }
 
+  public static void normalizeAndvalidateRequest(ResourceRequest resReq,
+      Resource maximumResource, String queueName, YarnScheduler scheduler,
+      RMContext rmContext, QueueInfo queueInfo)
+      throws InvalidResourceRequestException {
+    normalizeAndValidateRequest(resReq, maximumResource, queueName, scheduler,
+        false, rmContext, queueInfo);
+  }
+
+  
   public static void normalizeAndvalidateRequest(ResourceRequest resReq,
       Resource maximumResource, String queueName, YarnScheduler scheduler,
       RMContext rmContext)
       throws InvalidResourceRequestException {
     normalizeAndValidateRequest(resReq, maximumResource, queueName, scheduler,
-        false, rmContext);
+        false, rmContext, null);
   }
 
   /**