diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_assignment_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_assignment_test.go
index 59059feb0cc..e57351d4890 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_assignment_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/cpu_assignment_test.go
@@ -721,22 +721,22 @@ func commonTakeByTopologyExtendedTestCases(t *testing.T) []takeByTopologyExtende
 			mustParseCPUSet(t, "0-7,10-17,20-27,40-47,50-57,60-67"),
 		},
 		{
-			"allocate 24 full cores with 8 distributed across the first 3 NUMA nodes (filling the first NUMA node)",
+			"allocate 24 full cores with 8 distributed across the first 3 NUMA nodes (taking all but 2 from the first NUMA node)",
 			topoDualSocketMultiNumaPerSocketHT,
-			mustParseCPUSet(t, "2-39,42-79"),
+			mustParseCPUSet(t, "1-29,32-39,41-69,72-79"),
 			48,
 			1,
 			"",
-			mustParseCPUSet(t, "2-9,10-17,20-27,42-49,50-57,60-67"),
+			mustParseCPUSet(t, "1-8,10-17,20-27,41-48,50-57,60-67"),
 		},
 		{
-			"allocate 24 full cores with 8 distributed across the last 3 NUMA nodes (no room on the first NUMA node to distribute)",
+			"allocate 24 full cores with 8 distributed across the last 3 NUMA nodes (even though all 8 could be allocated from the first NUMA node)",
 			topoDualSocketMultiNumaPerSocketHT,
-			mustParseCPUSet(t, "3-39,43-79"),
+			mustParseCPUSet(t, "2-29,31-39,42-69,71-79"),
 			48,
 			1,
 			"",
-			mustParseCPUSet(t, "10-17,20-27,30-37,50-57,60-67,70-77"),
+			mustParseCPUSet(t, "10-17,20-27,31-38,50-57,60-67,71-78"),
 		},
 		{
 			"allocate 8 full cores with 2 distributed across each NUMA node",