1. A system for managing a logical partition, the system comprising: a secondary shared processor pool supplying a quantity of processing units, each processing unit representing the processing capacity of one processor core; and a partition manager operable to: relocate, in response to a predetermined condition, the logical partition from a first quantity of processing units in a primary shared processor pool to a second quantity of processing units in the secondary shared processor pool, the second quantity less than the first quantity; identify a third quantity of processing units in the secondary shared processor pool, the third quantity of processing units reserved for a second logical partition; and allocate a portion of the third quantity of processing units to the relocated logical partition.