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/allocator/RegularContainerAllocator.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/allocator/RegularContainerAllocator.java
index cced238b60164..0e89330eabeef 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/allocator/RegularContainerAllocator.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/allocator/RegularContainerAllocator.java
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ private ContainerAllocation assignContainer(Resource clusterResource,
     Resource available = node.getUnallocatedResource();
     Resource totalResource = node.getTotalResource();
 
-    if (!Resources.fitsIn(rc, capability, totalResource)) {
+    if (!Resources.fitsIn(capability, available)) {
       LOG.warn("Node : " + node.getNodeID()
           + " does not have sufficient resource for ask : " + pendingAsk
           + " node total capability : " + node.getTotalResource());