diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 3511cf3a861..66d96be07cf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3982  Improvements to TestHFileSeek
    HBASE-3940  HBase daemons should log version info at startup and possibly
                periodically (Li Pi)
+   HBASE-3976  Disable Block Cache On Compactions (Karthick Sankarachary)
 
   TASKS
    HBASE-3559  Move report of split to master OFF the heartbeat channel
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
index c9e29f903c0..87dce53e2a1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
@@ -549,12 +549,18 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
    * @return Writer for a new StoreFile in the tmp dir.
    */
   private StoreFile.Writer createWriterInTmp(int maxKeyCount,
-    Compression.Algorithm compression)
+      Compression.Algorithm compression) throws IOException {
+    return createWriterInTmp(maxKeyCount, compression,
+        conf.getBoolean("hbase.rs.cacheblocksonwrite", false));
+  }
+
+  private StoreFile.Writer createWriterInTmp(int maxKeyCount,
+    Compression.Algorithm compression, boolean cacheBlocksOnWrite)
   throws IOException {
     return StoreFile.createWriter(this.fs, region.getTmpDir(), this.blocksize,
         compression, this.comparator, this.conf,
         this.family.getBloomFilterType(), maxKeyCount,
-        conf.getBoolean("hbase.rs.cacheblocksonwrite", false));
+        cacheBlocksOnWrite);
   }
 
   /*
@@ -1097,7 +1103,7 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
         while (scanner.next(kvs)) {
           if (writer == null && !kvs.isEmpty()) {
             writer = createWriterInTmp(maxKeyCount,
-              this.compactionCompression);
+              this.compactionCompression, false);
           }
           if (writer != null) {
             // output to writer: