// 'distribution' number of CPUs.
			var remainderCombo []int
			for _, numa := range combo {
				if availableAfterAllocation[numa] >= cpuGroupSize {
					remainderCombo = append(remainderCombo, numa)
				}
			}

			// Declare a set of local variables to help track the "balance
			// scores" calculated when using different subsets of
			// 'remainderCombo' to allocate remainder CPUs from.