# Dynamic Resource Allocation — Consumable capacity

> The consumable capacity feature allows the same devices to be consumed by multiple independent ResourceClaims, with the Kubernetes scheduler managing how much of the device's capacity is used up by each claim.

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## Knowledge

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The consumable capacity feature allows the same devices to be consumed by multiple independent ResourceClaims, with the Kubernetes scheduler managing how much of the device's capacity is used up by each claim. This is analogous to how Pods can share the resources on a Node; ResourceClaims can share the resources on a Device.

The device driver can set allowMultipleAllocations field added in .spec.devices of ResourceSlice to allow allocating that device to multiple independent ResourceClaims or to multiple requests within a ResourceClaim.

Users can set capacity field added in spec.devices.requests of ResourceClaim to specify the device resource requirements for each allocation.

For the device that allows multiple allocations, the requested capacity is drawn from — or consumed from — its total capacity, a concept known as consumable capacity. Then, the scheduler ensures that the aggregate consumed capacity across all claims does not exceed the device’s overall capacity. Furthermore, driver authors can use the requestPolicy constraints on individual device capacities to control how those capacities are consumed. For example, the driver author can specify that a given capacity is only consumed in increments of 1Gi.

Here is an example of a network device which allows multiple allocations and contains a consumable bandwidth capacity.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
kind: ResourceSlice
apiVersion: resource.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: resourceslice
spec:
  nodeName: worker-1
  pool:
    name: pool
    generation: 1
    resourceSliceCount: 1
  driver: dra.example.com
  devices:
  - name: eth1
    allowMultipleAllocations: true
    attributes:
      name:
        string: "eth1"
    capacity:
      bandwidth:
        requestPolicy:
          default: "1M"
          validRange:
            min: "1M"
            step: "8"
        value: "10G"
```

The consumable capacity can be requested as shown in the below example.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
apiVersion: resource.k8s.io/v1
kind: ResourceClaimTemplate
metadata:
  name: bandwidth-claim-template
spec:
  spec:
    devices:
      requests:
      - name: req-0
        exactly:
          deviceClassName: resource.example.com
          capacity:
            requests:
              bandwidth: 1G
``` …

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