checkNotNull(comparator, "comparator");

    return new MergingIterator<>(iterators, comparator);
  }

  /**
   * An iterator that performs a lazy N-way merge, calculating the next value each time the iterator
   * is polled. This amortizes the sorting cost over the iteration and requires less memory than
   * sorting all elements at once.
   *

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- Scheduler changes its logic of calculating `evaluatedNodes` from "contains the number of nodes that filtered out by PreFilterResult and Filter plugins" to "the number of nodes filtered out by Filter plugins only". ([#124735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124735), [@AxeZh...

        assertEquals(20, bytesDecoded);

        // Verify capacity calculation: alloc * sectPerAlloc * bytesPerSect
        long expectedCapacity = alloc * sectPerAlloc * bytesPerSect;
        assertEquals(expectedCapacity, smbInfoAllocation.getCapacity());

        // Verify free space calculation: free * sectPerAlloc * bytesPerSect
        long expectedFree = free * sectPerAlloc * bytesPerSect;

          <name>exclusions</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>Lists a set of artifacts that should be excluded from this dependency's
            artifact list when it comes to calculating transitive dependencies.</description>
          <association>
            <type>Exclusion</type>
            <multiplicity>*</multiplicity>
          </association>
        </field>
        <field>

- Fixed a bug in previous releases where a pod could be placed inside another pod's cgroup when specifying --cgroup-root ([#70678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70678), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
- Optimized calculating stats when only CPU and Memory stats are returned from Kubelet stats/summary http endpoint.  ([#68841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68841), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- Fixed an error when trying to expand a volume that does not require node expansion. ([#123055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123055), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Fixed an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes. ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset))

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121540), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]