diff --git a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/dcmanager.pp b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/dcmanager.pp
index 3660ee8aa..1a93c34d9 100644
--- a/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/dcmanager.pp
+++ b/puppet-manifests/src/modules/platform/manifests/dcmanager.pp
@@ -115,10 +115,22 @@ class platform::dcmanager
     # Batch operations require extremely parallel cpu intensive usage
     # of both these cgroups. The dc services currently inherit the
     # sm.service cgroup; the sm.service override is generated by sm.pp.
+    # We do not want to affect software API performance.
     # We also remove the settings for services: pmon, sysinv-agent,
-    # collectd, fm-api, sm-api. There is no reason to limit their
-    # CPUShares on systemcontroller.
-    $service_names = [ 'pmon', 'ssh', 'sysinv-agent', 'collectd', 'fm-api', 'sm-api' ]
+    # collectd, fm-api, sm-api, software-controller-daemon,
+    # software, sw-patch-controller-daemon.
+    # There is no reason to limit their CPUShares on systemcontroller.
+    $service_names = [
+      'pmon',
+      'ssh',
+      'sysinv-agent',
+      'collectd',
+      'fm-api',
+      'sm-api',
+      'software-controller-daemon',
+      'software',
+      'sw-patch-controller-daemon'
+    ]
     $services = $service_names.map |$var| { "${var}.service" }
     $services_string = join($services, ' ')
     $dirs = $service_names.map |$var| { "/etc/systemd/system/${var}.service.d" }