diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 5ccfc1d56e..3d2f59b8ce 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
 
     HADOOP-9879. Move the version info of zookeeper dependencies to
     hadoop-project/pom (Karthik Kambatla via Sandy Ryza)
+    
+    HADOOP-9886. Turn warning message in RetryInvocationHandler to debug (arpit)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
index 4bf000ee85..974bac91eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ public class RetryInvocationHandler<T> implements RpcInvocationHandler {
             msg += ". Trying to fail over " + formatSleepMessage(action.delayMillis);
             if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
               LOG.debug(msg, e);
-            } else {
-              LOG.warn(msg);
             }
           } else {
             if(LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {