diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
index 54cbe6f6f93..106f2717dc0 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ManualEnvironmentEdge;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Threads;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.AbstractFSWALProvider;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.FaultyFSLog;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.NettyAsyncFSWALConfigHelper;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.WAL;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.WALEdit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.WALFactory;
@@ -180,6 +181,9 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.ProtobufUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.generated.WALProtos.CompactionDescriptor;
@@ -212,6 +216,7 @@ public class TestHRegion {
 
   private static final String COLUMN_FAMILY = "MyCF";
   private static final byte [] COLUMN_FAMILY_BYTES = Bytes.toBytes(COLUMN_FAMILY);
+  private static final EventLoopGroup GROUP = new NioEventLoopGroup();
 
   HRegion region = null;
   // Do not run unit tests in parallel (? Why not?  It don't work?  Why not?  St.Ack)
@@ -240,6 +245,7 @@ public class TestHRegion {
   public void setup() throws IOException {
     TEST_UTIL = HBaseTestingUtility.createLocalHTU();
     CONF = TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration();
+    NettyAsyncFSWALConfigHelper.setEventLoopConfig(CONF, GROUP, NioSocketChannel.class);
     dir = TEST_UTIL.getDataTestDir("TestHRegion").toString();
     method = name.getMethodName();
     tableName = TableName.valueOf(method);