diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfigKeys.java b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfigKeys.java
index 102207dd111d..b8ab3e541d8c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfigKeys.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/OzoneConfigKeys.java
@@ -327,12 +327,6 @@ public final class OzoneConfigKeys {
       "ozone.key.preallocation.max.blocks";
   public static final int OZONE_KEY_PREALLOCATION_BLOCKS_MAX_DEFAULT
       = 64;
-
-  public static final String OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER =
-      "ozone.block.deleting.limit.per.task";
-  public static final int OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER_DEFAULT
-      = 1000;
-
   public static final String HDDS_CONTAINER_RATIS_ENABLED_KEY
       = ScmConfigKeys.HDDS_CONTAINER_RATIS_ENABLED_KEY;
   public static final boolean HDDS_CONTAINER_RATIS_ENABLED_DEFAULT
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
index 649a5d32d03d..6acacd954ac0 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/common/src/main/resources/ozone-default.xml
@@ -426,16 +426,6 @@
       or be directly or indirectly in a group defined in this property.
     </description>
   </property>
-  <property>
-    <name>ozone.block.deleting.limit.per.task</name>
-    <value>1000</value>
-    <tag>OZONE, PERFORMANCE, SCM</tag>
-    <description>A maximum number of blocks to be deleted by block deleting
-      service per
-      time interval. This property is used to throttle the actual number of
-      block deletions on a data node per container.
-    </description>
-  </property>
   <property>
     <name>ozone.block.deleting.service.interval</name>
     <value>1m</value>
@@ -453,8 +443,7 @@
     <description>A timeout value of block deletion service. If this is set
       greater than 0,
       the service will stop waiting for the block deleting completion after this
-      time. If timeout happens to a large proportion of block deletion, this
-      needs to be increased with ozone.block.deleting.limit.per.task. This
+      time. This
       setting supports multiple time unit suffixes as described in
       dfs.heartbeat.interval. If no suffix is specified, then milliseconds is
       assumed.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestBlockDeletingService.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestBlockDeletingService.java
index 057b94437842..d5f7026a27b8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestBlockDeletingService.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestBlockDeletingService.java
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfigKeys.OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfigKeys.OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_SERVICE_INTERVAL;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConsts.SCHEMA_V1;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConsts.SCHEMA_V2;
@@ -769,7 +768,6 @@ public void testShutdownService(ContainerTestVersionInfo versionInfo)
     setLayoutAndSchemaForTest(versionInfo);
     conf.setTimeDuration(OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_SERVICE_INTERVAL, 500,
         TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
-    conf.setInt(OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER, 10);
 
     ContainerSet containerSet = new ContainerSet(1000);
     // Create 1 container with 100 blocks
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaOneBackwardsCompatibility.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaOneBackwardsCompatibility.java
index e05192f78916..deb70fa0dac6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaOneBackwardsCompatibility.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaOneBackwardsCompatibility.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.ScmConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.utils.MetadataKeyFilters.KeyPrefixFilter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.utils.db.Table;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConsts;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.helpers.BlockData;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.helpers.ChunkInfoList;
@@ -554,8 +553,6 @@ public void testReadDeletedBlocks(String schemaVersion) throws Exception {
 
   private void runBlockDeletingService(KeyValueHandler keyValueHandler)
       throws Exception {
-    conf.setInt(OzoneConfigKeys.OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER, 2);
-
     OzoneContainer container = makeMockOzoneContainer(keyValueHandler);
 
     BlockDeletingServiceTestImpl service =
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaTwoBackwardsCompatibility.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaTwoBackwardsCompatibility.java
index 98d19ea64c65..a7f90ec24296 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaTwoBackwardsCompatibility.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/TestSchemaTwoBackwardsCompatibility.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.container.common.helpers.StorageContainerException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.utils.db.BatchOperation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.utils.db.Table;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConfigKeys;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.OzoneConsts;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.common.ChunkBuffer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.ContainerTestHelper;
@@ -223,9 +222,6 @@ public void testReadMetadata() throws IOException {
   @Test
   public void testDeleteViaTransation() throws IOException, TimeoutException,
       InterruptedException {
-    conf.setInt(OzoneConfigKeys.OZONE_BLOCK_DELETING_LIMIT_PER_CONTAINER,
-        BLOCKS_PER_CONTAINER);
-
     // create a container of schema v2
     KeyValueContainer container = createTestContainer();
     assertEquals(container.getContainerData().getSchemaVersion(),