diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index c90674e5a6..a3954e06a9 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -626,6 +626,9 @@ Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3733. Fix DominantRC#compare() does not work as expected if 
     cluster resource is empty. (Rohith Sharmaks via wangda)
 
+    YARN-3764. CapacityScheduler should forbid moving LeafQueue from one parent
+    to another. (Wangda Tan via jianhe)
+
 Release 2.7.0 - 2015-04-20
 
   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 06d282df14..f1d0f9c809 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
@@ -551,8 +551,15 @@ private void validateExistingQueues(
     // check that all static queues are included in the newQueues list
     for (Map.Entry<String, CSQueue> e : queues.entrySet()) {
       if (!(e.getValue() instanceof ReservationQueue)) {
-        if (!newQueues.containsKey(e.getKey())) {
-          throw new IOException(e.getKey() + " cannot be found during refresh!");
+        String queueName = e.getKey();
+        CSQueue oldQueue = e.getValue();
+        CSQueue newQueue = newQueues.get(queueName); 
+        if (null == newQueue) {
+          throw new IOException(queueName + " cannot be found during refresh!");
+        } else if (!oldQueue.getQueuePath().equals(newQueue.getQueuePath())) {
+          throw new IOException(queueName + " is moved from:"
+              + oldQueue.getQueuePath() + " to:" + newQueue.getQueuePath()
+              + " after refresh, which is not allowed.");
         }
       }
     }
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/capacity/TestQueueParsing.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestQueueParsing.java
index 8d04700690..198bd4a27b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestQueueParsing.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/TestQueueParsing.java
@@ -865,4 +865,37 @@ public void testQueueParsingWithSumOfChildLabelCapacityNot100PercentWithWildCard
     capacityScheduler.start();
     ServiceOperations.stopQuietly(capacityScheduler);
   }
+  
+  @Test(expected = IOException.class)
+  public void testQueueParsingWithMoveQueue()
+      throws IOException {
+    YarnConfiguration conf = new YarnConfiguration();
+    CapacitySchedulerConfiguration csConf =
+        new CapacitySchedulerConfiguration(conf);
+    csConf.setQueues("root", new String[] { "a" });
+    csConf.setQueues("root.a", new String[] { "x", "y" });
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.a", 100);
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.a.x", 50);
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.a.y", 50);
+
+    CapacityScheduler capacityScheduler = new CapacityScheduler();
+    RMContextImpl rmContext =
+        new RMContextImpl(null, null, null, null, null, null,
+            new RMContainerTokenSecretManager(csConf),
+            new NMTokenSecretManagerInRM(csConf),
+            new ClientToAMTokenSecretManagerInRM(), null);
+    rmContext.setNodeLabelManager(nodeLabelManager);
+    capacityScheduler.setConf(csConf);
+    capacityScheduler.setRMContext(rmContext);
+    capacityScheduler.init(csConf);
+    capacityScheduler.start();
+    
+    csConf.setQueues("root", new String[] { "a", "x" });
+    csConf.setQueues("root.a", new String[] { "y" });
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.x", 50);
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.a", 50);
+    csConf.setCapacity("root.a.y", 100);
+    
+    capacityScheduler.reinitialize(csConf, rmContext);
+  }
 }