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/fair/FairSchedulerConfiguration.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/FairSchedulerConfiguration.java
index c3351d81ac..b50e4bbe31 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/FairSchedulerConfiguration.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/FairSchedulerConfiguration.java
@@ -45,19 +45,29 @@ public class FairSchedulerConfiguration extends Configuration {
   public static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(
       FairSchedulerConfiguration.class.getName());
 
-  /** Increment request grant-able by the RM scheduler.
-   * These properties are looked up in the yarn-site.xml.
-   * Kept for backward-compatibility - the new preferred way to configure the
-   * increment is the yarn.resource-types.{RESOURCE_NAME}.increment-allocation
-   * property, specifically: yarn.resource-types.memory-mb.increment-allocation
-   * for memory and yarn.resource-types.vcores.increment-allocation for CPU */
+  /**
+   * Resource Increment request grant-able by the FairScheduler.
+   * This property is looked up in the yarn-site.xml.
+   * @deprecated The preferred way to configure the increment is by using the
+   * yarn.resource-types.{RESOURCE_NAME}.increment-allocation property,
+   * for memory: yarn.resource-types.memory-mb.increment-allocation
+   */
   @Deprecated
   public static final String RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_MB =
     YarnConfiguration.YARN_PREFIX + "scheduler.increment-allocation-mb";
+  @Deprecated
   public static final int DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_MB = 1024;
+  /**
+   * Resource Increment request grant-able by the FairScheduler.
+   * This property is looked up in the yarn-site.xml.
+   * @deprecated The preferred way to configure the increment is by using the
+   * yarn.resource-types.{RESOURCE_NAME}.increment-allocation property,
+   * for CPU: yarn.resource-types.vcores.increment-allocation
+   */
   @Deprecated
   public static final String RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_VCORES =
     YarnConfiguration.YARN_PREFIX + "scheduler.increment-allocation-vcores";
+  @Deprecated
   public static final int DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_VCORES = 1;
 
   /** Threshold for container size for making a container reservation as a
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/TestFairScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/TestFairScheduler.java
index 5f21eabe1c..77b6d0454d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/TestFairScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fair/TestFairScheduler.java
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ public void testSimpleContainerAllocation() throws IOException {
 
     // Asked for less than increment allocation.
     assertEquals(
-        FairSchedulerConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_MB,
+        YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_MINIMUM_ALLOCATION_MB,
         scheduler.getQueueManager().getQueue("queue1").
             getResourceUsage().getMemorySize());
 
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ public void testQueueDemandCalculation() throws Exception {
     scheduler.start();
     scheduler.reinitialize(conf, resourceManager.getRMContext());
     int minReqSize =
-        FairSchedulerConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_INCREMENT_ALLOCATION_MB;
+        YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_RM_SCHEDULER_MINIMUM_ALLOCATION_MB;
 
     // First ask, queue1 requests 1 large (minReqSize * 2).
     ApplicationAttemptId id11 = createAppAttemptId(1, 1);