diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index ed13c714506..1d80c85b7f5 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ Release 2.6.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3493. RM fails to come up with error "Failed to load/recover state" 
     when mem settings are changed. (Jian He via wangda)
 
+    YARN-3487. CapacityScheduler scheduler lock obtained unnecessarily when 
+    calling getQueue (Jason Lowe via wangda)
+
 Release 2.6.0 - 2014-11-18
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
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/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
index df3baf1ba39..042c83ce61b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ public class CapacityScheduler extends
     return queue;
   }
 
-  public synchronized CSQueue getQueue(String queueName) {
+  public CSQueue getQueue(String queueName) {
     if (queueName == null) {
       return null;
     }
@@ -902,11 +902,7 @@ public class CapacityScheduler extends
       boolean includeChildQueues, boolean recursive) 
   throws IOException {
     CSQueue queue = null;
-
-    synchronized (this) {
-      queue = this.queues.get(queueName); 
-    }
-
+    queue = this.queues.get(queueName);
     if (queue == null) {
       throw new IOException("Unknown queue: " + queueName);
     }