diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go
index cc0b4266968..8db1638d179 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_linux.go
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ func (cm *containerManagerImpl) GetDevices(podUID, containerName string) []*podr
 }
 
 func (cm *containerManagerImpl) GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) []int64 {
-	return cm.cpuManager.GetCPUs(podUID, containerName)
+	return cm.cpuManager.GetCPUs(podUID, containerName).ToSliceNoSortInt64()
 }
 
 func (cm *containerManagerImpl) ShouldResetExtendedResourceCapacity() bool {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_manager.go
index 44368efc441..b1732fe765e 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_manager.go
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ type Manager interface {
 
 	// GetCPUs implements the podresources.CPUsProvider interface to provide allocated
 	// cpus for the container
-	GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) []int64
+	GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) cpuset.CPUSet
 
 	// GetPodTopologyHints implements the topologymanager.HintProvider Interface
 	// and is consulted to achieve NUMA aware resource alignment per Pod
@@ -481,11 +481,6 @@ func (m *manager) updateContainerCPUSet(containerID string, cpus cpuset.CPUSet)
 		})
 }
 
-func (m *manager) GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) []int64 {
-	cpus := m.state.GetCPUSetOrDefault(string(podUID), containerName)
-	result := []int64{}
-	for _, cpu := range cpus.ToSliceNoSort() {
-		result = append(result, int64(cpu))
-	}
-	return result
+func (m *manager) GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) cpuset.CPUSet {
+	return m.state.GetCPUSetOrDefault(podUID, containerName)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/fake_cpu_manager.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/fake_cpu_manager.go
index 437a6af040c..5362fbebb20 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/fake_cpu_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/fake_cpu_manager.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cm/containermap"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/state"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpuset"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cm/topologymanager"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/config"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/status"
@@ -69,9 +70,9 @@ func (m *fakeManager) State() state.Reader {
 	return m.state
 }
 
-func (m *fakeManager) GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) []int64 {
+func (m *fakeManager) GetCPUs(podUID, containerName string) cpuset.CPUSet {
 	klog.Infof("[fake cpumanager] GetCPUs(podUID: %s, containerName: %s)", podUID, containerName)
-	return nil
+	return cpuset.CPUSet{}
 }
 
 // NewFakeManager creates empty/fake cpu manager