diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
index 451ce2619b9..04146abcf66 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Server.java
@@ -600,17 +600,18 @@ public abstract class Server {
     }
   }
 
-  void updateMetrics(Call call, long startTime, boolean connDropped) {
+  void updateMetrics(Call call, long processingStartTime, boolean connDropped) {
     totalRequests.increment();
     // delta = handler + processing + response
-    long deltaNanos = Time.monotonicNowNanos() - startTime;
-    long timestampNanos = call.timestampNanos;
+    long completionTime = Time.monotonicNowNanos();
+    long deltaNanos = completionTime - processingStartTime;
+    long arrivalTime = call.timestampNanos;
 
     ProcessingDetails details = call.getProcessingDetails();
     // queue time is the delta between when the call first arrived and when it
     // began being serviced, minus the time it took to be put into the queue
     details.set(Timing.QUEUE,
-        startTime - timestampNanos - details.get(Timing.ENQUEUE));
+        processingStartTime - arrivalTime - details.get(Timing.ENQUEUE));
     deltaNanos -= details.get(Timing.PROCESSING);
     deltaNanos -= details.get(Timing.RESPONSE);
     details.set(Timing.HANDLER, deltaNanos);
@@ -636,6 +637,10 @@ public abstract class Server {
     processingTime -= waitTime;
     String name = call.getDetailedMetricsName();
     rpcDetailedMetrics.addProcessingTime(name, processingTime);
+    // Overall processing time is from arrival to completion.
+    rpcDetailedMetrics.addOverallProcessingTime(name,
+        rpcMetrics.getMetricsTimeUnit().convert(completionTime - arrivalTime,
+            TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS));
     callQueue.addResponseTime(name, call, details);
     if (isLogSlowRPC()) {
       logSlowRpcCalls(name, call, details);
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/metrics/RpcDetailedMetrics.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/metrics/RpcDetailedMetrics.java
index 98b9f262b85..d8d35ae7a8a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/metrics/RpcDetailedMetrics.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/metrics/RpcDetailedMetrics.java
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableRatesWithAggregation;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.capitalize;
+
+
 /**
  * This class is for maintaining RPC method related statistics
  * and publishing them through the metrics interfaces.
@@ -33,14 +36,26 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 @Metrics(about="Per method RPC metrics", context="rpcdetailed")
 public class RpcDetailedMetrics {
+  static final String OVERALL_PROCESSING_PREFIX = "Overall";
 
+  // per-method RPC processing time
   @Metric MutableRatesWithAggregation rates;
   @Metric MutableRatesWithAggregation deferredRpcRates;
+  /**
+   * per-method overall RPC processing time, from request arrival to when the
+   * response is sent back.
+   */
+  @Metric MutableRatesWithAggregation overallRpcProcessingRates;
 
   static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RpcDetailedMetrics.class);
   final MetricsRegistry registry;
   final String name;
 
+  // Mainly to facilitate testing in TestRPC.java
+  public MutableRatesWithAggregation getOverallRpcProcessingRates() {
+    return overallRpcProcessingRates;
+  }
+
   RpcDetailedMetrics(int port) {
     name = "RpcDetailedActivityForPort"+ port;
     registry = new MetricsRegistry("rpcdetailed")
@@ -62,6 +77,7 @@ public class RpcDetailedMetrics {
   public void init(Class<?> protocol) {
     rates.init(protocol);
     deferredRpcRates.init(protocol, "Deferred");
+    overallRpcProcessingRates.init(protocol);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -78,6 +94,16 @@ public class RpcDetailedMetrics {
     deferredRpcRates.add(name, processingTime);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Add an overall RPC processing time sample
+   * @param rpcCallName of the RPC call
+   * @param overallProcessingTime  the overall RPC processing time
+   */
+  public void addOverallProcessingTime(String rpcCallName, long overallProcessingTime) {
+    String metric = OVERALL_PROCESSING_PREFIX + capitalize(rpcCallName);
+    overallRpcProcessingRates.add(metric, overallProcessingTime);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Shutdown the instrumentation for the process
    */
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java
index 6e5cb7059c6..e1deab5afe1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPC.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.protobuf.RpcHeaderProtos.RpcResponseHeaderProto.Rpc
 import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.protobuf.TestProtos;
 import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsRecordBuilder;
 import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableCounterLong;
+import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableRatesWithAggregation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.SecurityUtil;
@@ -95,6 +96,8 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
 
+import static org.apache.hadoop.test.MetricsAsserts.assertGaugeGt;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.test.MetricsAsserts.mockMetricsRecordBuilder;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.test.MetricsAsserts.assertCounter;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.test.MetricsAsserts.assertCounterGt;
@@ -1441,6 +1444,41 @@ public class TestRPC extends TestRpcBase {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Test per-type overall RPC processing time metric
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testOverallRpcProcessingTimeMetric() throws Exception {
+    final Server server;
+    TestRpcService proxy = null;
+
+    server = setupTestServer(conf, 5);
+    try {
+      proxy = getClient(addr, conf);
+
+      // Sent 1 ping request and 2 lockAndSleep requests
+      proxy.ping(null, newEmptyRequest());
+      proxy.lockAndSleep(null, newSleepRequest(10));
+      proxy.lockAndSleep(null, newSleepRequest(12));
+
+      MetricsRecordBuilder rb = mockMetricsRecordBuilder();
+      MutableRatesWithAggregation rates =
+          server.rpcDetailedMetrics.getOverallRpcProcessingRates();
+      rates.snapshot(rb, true);
+
+      // Verify the ping request. AvgTime should be non-zero.
+      assertCounter("OverallPingNumOps", 1L, rb);
+      assertGaugeGt("OverallPingAvgTime", 0, rb);
+
+      // Verify lockAndSleep requests. AvgTime should be greater than 10 ms,
+      // since we sleep for 10 and 12 ms respectively.
+      assertCounter("OverallLockAndSleepNumOps", 2L, rb);
+      assertGaugeGt("OverallLockAndSleepAvgTime", 10.0, rb);
+
+    } finally {
+      stop(server, proxy);
+    }
+  }
   /**
    *  Test RPC backoff by queue full.
    */