diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f5f041e53b..baff0a7d2f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -3674,6 +3674,9 @@ Release 0.23.10 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-5010. Reduce the frequency of getCurrentUser() calls from namenode
     (kihwal)
 
+    HDFS-5346. Avoid unnecessary call to getNumLiveDataNodes() for each block 
+    during IBR processing (Ravi Prakash via kihwal)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
index febcdae39f..8f1ef3c6f0 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java
@@ -4618,7 +4618,7 @@ private synchronized boolean canLeave() {
      */
     private boolean needEnter() {
       return (threshold != 0 && blockSafe < blockThreshold) ||
-        (getNumLiveDataNodes() < datanodeThreshold) ||
+        (datanodeThreshold != 0 && getNumLiveDataNodes() < datanodeThreshold) ||
         (!nameNodeHasResourcesAvailable());
     }