Whatever is not pinned is moved out of the top cpuset, on the kind of
systems I'm most familiar with. They are put in a smaller cpuset, with
load balancing, that is sized for the workload they might present, but
kept separate from the main jobs.
We don't do a whole lot of brushing under the carpet on these kind of
systems. If I gave you the impression we do, then I misled you - sorry.
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