[PATCH v4 6/7] sched: add function nr_running_cpu to expose number of tasks running on cpu

[Tim Chen]

This function will help a thread decide if it wants to to do work
that can be delayed, to accumulate more tasks for more efficient
batch processing later.

However, if no other tasks are running on the cpu, it can take
advantgae of the available cpu cycles to complete the tasks
for immediate processing to minimize delay, otherwise it will yield.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
 kernel/sched/core.c   | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 7cb07fd..0884250 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ extern int nr_threads;
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts);
 extern int nr_processes(void);
 extern unsigned long nr_running(void);
+extern unsigned long nr_running_cpu(int cpu);
 extern unsigned long nr_iowait(void);
 extern unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu);
 extern unsigned long this_cpu_load(void);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 9cae286..d5bb8e6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2283,6 +2283,14 @@ unsigned long nr_running(void)
 	return sum;
 }
 
+unsigned long nr_running_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask))
+		return cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running;
+	else
+		return 0;
+}
+
 unsigned long long nr_context_switches(void)
 {
 	int i;
-- 
1.7.11.7



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