diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/topology/topology.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/topology/topology.go
index c5fd99019da..54a5394503f 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/topology/topology.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cpumanager/topology/topology.go
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ func GetNUMANodeInfo() (NUMANodeInfo, error) {
 	// nil NUMANodeInfo, indicating that no NUMA information is available
 	// on this machine. This should implicitly be interpreted as having a
 	// single NUMA node with id 0 for all CPUs.
-	nodelist, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/sys/devices/system/node/possible")
+	nodelist, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/sys/devices/system/node/online")
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil
 	}