* using a secondary hash (Marsaglia XorShift) to try to find a
   * free slot.
   *
   * The table size is capped because, when there are more threads
   * than CPUs, supposing that each thread were bound to a CPU,
   * there would exist a perfect hash function mapping threads to
   * slots that eliminates collisions. When we reach capacity, we
   * search for this mapping by randomly varying the hash codes of

- A new kubelet command line option, `--reserved-cpus`, is introduced to explicitly define the CPU list that will be reserved for system. For example, if `--reserved-cpus=0,1,2,3` is specified, then cpu 0,1,2,3 will be reserved for the system.  On a system with 24 CPUs, the user may specify `isolcpus=4-23` for the kernel option and use CPU 4-23 for the user containers. ([#83592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83592), [@jianzzh...

- When the kubelet fails to assign CPUs to a Pod because there less available CPUs than the Pod requests, the error message changed from

- Add a new `distribute-cpus-across-numa` option to the static `CPUManager` policy. When enabled, this will trigger the `CPUManager` to evenly distribute CPUs across NUMA nodes in cases where more than one NUMA node is required to satisfy the allocation. ([#105631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105631), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))...

- Fixes regression in CPUManager that caused freeing of exclusive CPUs at incorrect times ([#90377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90377), [@cbf123](https://github.com/cbf123)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]

- kubeadm: Implemented preflight check to ensure that number of CPUs ([#70048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70048), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

- Fixes regression in CPUManager that caused freeing of exclusive CPUs at incorrect times ([#90377](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90377), [@cbf123](https://github.com/cbf123)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]

- User can choose a different static policy option `SpreadPhysicalCPUsPreferredOption` to spread cpus across physical cpus for some specific applications ([#123733](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123733), [@Jeffwan](https://github.com/Jeffwan)) [SIG Node]

- Fix a race in the timeout handler that could lead to kube-apiserver crashes ([#108455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108455), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))
- Fix container creation errors for pods with cpu requests bigger than 256 cpus ([#106570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106570), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

    /**
     * Data transfer object representing process CPU statistics.
     */
    public static class ProcessCpuObj {
        /**
         * Default constructor.
         */
        public ProcessCpuObj() {
            // Default constructor
        }

        /** CPU usage percentage for the process. */
        public short percent;
        /** Total CPU time used by the process in milliseconds. */