diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
index a709eb18ec..caf5965858 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils.go
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func WriteToFile(path string, data []byte) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-//CalculateMilliCPUs converts CPU quota and period to milli-CPUs
+// CalculateMilliCPUs converts CPU quota and period to milli-CPUs
 func CalculateMilliCPUs(quota int64, period uint64) uint32 {
 
 	// If quota is -1, it means the CPU resource request is
@@ -125,27 +125,12 @@ func CalculateMilliCPUs(quota int64, period uint64) uint32 {
 	return 0
 }
 
-//CalculateVCpusFromMilliCpus converts from mCPU to CPU, taking the ceiling
+// CalculateVCpusFromMilliCpus converts from mCPU to CPU, taking the ceiling
 // value when necessary
 func CalculateVCpusFromMilliCpus(mCPU uint32) uint32 {
 	return (mCPU + 999) / 1000
 }
 
-// ConstraintsToVCPUs converts CPU quota and period to vCPUs
-func ConstraintsToVCPUs(quota int64, period uint64) uint {
-	if quota != 0 && period != 0 {
-		// Use some math magic to round up to the nearest whole vCPU
-		// (that is, a partial part of a quota request ends up assigning
-		// a whole vCPU, for instance, a request of 1.5 'cpu quotas'
-		// will give 2 vCPUs).
-		// This also has the side effect that we will always allocate
-		// at least 1 vCPU.
-		return uint((uint64(quota) + (period - 1)) / period)
-	}
-
-	return 0
-}
-
 // GetVirtDriveName returns the disk name format for virtio-blk
 // Reference: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c @c0aa3e0916d7e531e69b02e426f7162dfb1c6c0
 func GetVirtDriveName(index int) (string, error) {
diff --git a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
index 99e533feee..7c50723d28 100644
--- a/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/virtcontainers/utils/utils_test.go
@@ -170,23 +170,6 @@ func TestCaluclateVCpusFromMilliCpus(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(n, expected)
 }
 
-func TestConstraintsToVCPUs(t *testing.T) {
-	assert := assert.New(t)
-
-	vcpus := ConstraintsToVCPUs(0, 100)
-	assert.Zero(vcpus)
-
-	vcpus = ConstraintsToVCPUs(100, 0)
-	assert.Zero(vcpus)
-
-	expectedVCPUs := uint(4)
-	vcpus = ConstraintsToVCPUs(4000, 1000)
-	assert.Equal(expectedVCPUs, vcpus)
-
-	vcpus = ConstraintsToVCPUs(4000, 1200)
-	assert.Equal(expectedVCPUs, vcpus)
-}
-
 func TestGetVirtDriveNameInvalidIndex(t *testing.T) {
 	assert := assert.New(t)
 	_, err := GetVirtDriveName(-1)