diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index cf88280a7d2..d6ebd9ec780 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-10688. Expose thread-level FileSystem StatisticsData (Sandy Ryza)
 
+    HADOOP-10657. Have RetryInvocationHandler log failover attempt at INFO
+    level. (Ming Ma via jing9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
index 4df44f6dc6a..5a4e63840db 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
@@ -137,9 +137,7 @@ public class RetryInvocationHandler<T> implements RpcInvocationHandler {
               msg += " after " + invocationFailoverCount + " fail over attempts"; 
             }
             msg += ". Trying to fail over " + formatSleepMessage(action.delayMillis);
-            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-              LOG.debug(msg, e);
-            }
+            LOG.info(msg, e);
           } else {
             if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
               LOG.debug("Exception while invoking " + method.getName()