diff --git a/src/cpp/src/scheduler.hpp b/src/cpp/src/scheduler.hpp
index ba0880b58a..da65c68bec 100644
--- a/src/cpp/src/scheduler.hpp
+++ b/src/cpp/src/scheduler.hpp
@@ -250,13 +250,13 @@ class Scheduler {
                 OPENVINO_ASSERT(currently_allocated_token_slots >= occupied_token_slots, "internal error");
                 size_t available_slots = currently_allocated_token_slots - occupied_token_slots,
                        required_slots = num_scheduled_tokens > available_slots ? num_scheduled_tokens - available_slots : 0;
-                size_t num_required_blocks = (required_slots + block_size - 1) / block_size, num_free_blocks = m_block_manager.num_free_blocks();
+                size_t num_required_blocks = (required_slots + block_size - 1) / block_size;
                 while (num_required_blocks > m_block_manager.num_free_blocks()) {
                     if (!_try_increase_cache()) {
                         break;
                     }
                 }
-                size_t num_scheduled_blocks = std::min(num_required_blocks, num_free_blocks);
+                size_t num_scheduled_blocks = std::min(num_required_blocks, m_block_manager.num_free_blocks());
                 // some scheduled blocks can be no fully occupied, so we need to take min between num_scheduled_blocks
                 // and total "scheduled capacity"
                 num_scheduled_tokens = std::min(num_scheduled_tokens, available_slots + num_scheduled_blocks * block_size);