diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.java
index ff6811002fc..7144cb846da 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 public class IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy extends ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy {
 
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy.class);
-  protected long initialSize;
+  private long initialSize;
 
   @Override
   protected void configureForRegion(HRegion region) {
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ public class IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy extends ConstantSizeRegionS
   }
 
   /**
-   * @return Region max size or {@code count of regions cubed * 2 * flushsize},
+   * @return Region max size or {@code count of regions cubed * flushsize},
    * which ever is smaller; guard against there being zero regions on this server.
    */
   protected long getSizeToCheck(final int tableRegionsCount) {
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SteppingSplitPolicy.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SteppingSplitPolicy.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f3e0f27660..00000000000
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/SteppingSplitPolicy.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;
-
-public class SteppingSplitPolicy extends IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy {
-  /**
-   * @return flushSize * 2 if there's exactly one region of the table in question
-   * found on this regionserver. Otherwise max file size.
-   * This allows a table to spread quickly across servers, while avoiding creating
-   * too many regions.
-   */
-  protected long getSizeToCheck(final int tableRegionsCount) {
-    return tableRegionsCount == 1  ? this.initialSize : getDesiredMaxFileSize();
-  }
-
-
-}