Quick Answer
The scheduler uses priority-based preemption รขโฌโ high-priority Pods preempt lower-priority ones to get scheduled. For lower-priority work that can't preempt anything, the scheduler queues it and retries periodically. With proper Priority Classes and a mix of preemptible and non-preemptible workloads, high-priority work always gets scheduled while low-priority work waits rather than starving.
Answer
Fair scheduling and backoff ensure low-priority Pods eventually run.
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