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KEP-4540keps/sig-node/4540-strict-cpu-reservation

Add CPUManager policy option to restrict reservedSystemCPUs to system daemons and interrupt processing

implementedstablesig-nodelatest v1.35
Starting with Kubernetes 1.22, a new CPUManager flag has facilitated the use of CPUManager Policy options (#2625) which enable users to customize their behavior based on workload requirements without having to introduce an entirely new policy. These policy options work together to ensure an optimized cpu set is allocated for workloads running on a cluster. T… Full summary

Starting with Kubernetes 1.22, a new CPUManager flag has facilitated the use of CPUManager Policy options (#2625) which enable users to customize their behavior based on workload requirements without having to introduce an entirely new policy. These policy options work together to ensure an optimized cpu set is allocated for workloads running on a cluster. The policy options that already exist are full-pcpus-only (#2625) and distribute-cpus-across-numa (#2902) and align-by-socket (#3327) and distribute-cpus-across-cores (#4176). With this KEP, a new CPUManager policy option strict-cpu-reservation is introduced which ensures that reservedSystemCPUs are strictly reserved for system daemons or interrupt processing and are not used by burstable and best-effort pods.

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@ffromani
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@soltyshbeta@soltyshalpha@soltyshstable
Tracking issue
#4540(opens GitHub in a new tab) closedcompletedclosed 2026-01-19 13:42 UTCmilestone v1.35sig/nodestage/stable
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alpha v1.32beta v1.33stable v1.35
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none
Feature gates
CPUManagerPolicyBetaOptions, CPUManagerPolicyAlphaOptions, CPUManagerPolicyOptions
Created / last updated
2024-03-06 / none
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