From: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Vernet <void@manifault.com>,
Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com>,
sched-ext@lists.linux.dev, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] sched_ext: Introduce scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus()
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929084124.626693-3-arighi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929084124.626693-1-arighi@nvidia.com>
Hierarchical BPF schedulers may need to know how many CPUs a cgroup can
run on when distributing group-wide weights.
For example, fair's group share calculation scales a group's weight by
the smaller of its estimated runnable task count and the number of CPUs
in its effective cpuset. Without that count, a BPF scheduler can only
use the machine-wide CPU count and may give a group confined to a few
CPUs excessive shares.
A task's effective affinity can include per-task restrictions, so it
cannot reliably represent the group's cpuset. Reading the cpuset
directly from BPF would require CO-RE access to private cgroup and
cpuset structures, including inherited cpuset resolution, making the
approach fragile across kernel versions.
Add scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus(), which returns the same count fair uses
through cpuset_num_cpus(). The count is independent of CPU or CID
numbering, so the kfunc is available to both cpu-form and cid-form
schedulers from any context. Also add the a compat wrapper which falls
back to nr_cpu_ids on older kernels.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
---
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h | 1 +
tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
index e48aac45afeaf..bb668a1749f55 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext/ext.c
@@ -11350,6 +11350,27 @@ __bpf_kfunc struct cgroup *scx_bpf_task_cgroup(struct task_struct *p,
cgroup_get(cgrp);
return cgrp;
}
+
+/**
+ * scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus - Return the number of CPUs in a cgroup's cpuset
+ * @cgrp: cgroup of interest
+ *
+ * Return the number of CPUs in @cgrp's effective cpuset, which is inherited
+ * from the nearest ancestor with the cpuset controller enabled. This matches
+ * the count used by fair's group share calculation and lets hierarchical BPF
+ * schedulers bound a group's weight by the CPUs it can actually run on.
+ *
+ * On cgroup v1 without the cpuset_v2_mode mount option, or when cpuset is not
+ * configured, the number of online CPUs is returned. The result may be 0 for a
+ * partition root which has no effective CPUs left.
+ *
+ * The value is a snapshot and may change at any time through cpuset updates or
+ * CPU hotplug. Schedulers should re-read it when recomputing group state.
+ */
+__bpf_kfunc u32 scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus(struct cgroup *cgrp)
+{
+ return cpuset_num_cpus(cgrp);
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED */
__bpf_kfunc_end_defs();
@@ -11397,6 +11418,7 @@ BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_now)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_events, KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS)
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_task_cgroup, KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS | KF_RCU | KF_ACQUIRE)
+BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus, KF_RCU)
#endif
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_sub_grant, KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS)
BTF_ID_FLAGS(func, scx_bpf_sub_revoke, KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS)
diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h
index 5003e33f51423..28337ae8d9e66 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/common.bpf.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct task_struct *scx_bpf_cpu_curr(s32 cpu) __ksym __weak;
struct task_struct *scx_bpf_tid_to_task(u64 tid) __ksym __weak;
u64 scx_bpf_now(void) __ksym __weak;
void scx_bpf_events(struct scx_event_stats *events, size_t events__sz) __ksym __weak;
+u32 scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus(struct cgroup *cgrp) __ksym __weak;
s32 scx_bpf_cpu_to_cid(s32 cpu) __ksym __weak;
s32 scx_bpf_cid_to_cpu(s32 cid) __ksym __weak;
s32 scx_bpf_cid_node(s32 cid) __ksym __weak;
diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h
index c5c90d1d81e04..a793c5e8814b9 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h
@@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ static inline bool __COMPAT_is_enq_cpu_selected(u64 enq_flags)
(bpf_ksym_exists(scx_bpf_cid_node) ? \
scx_bpf_cid_node(cid) : NUMA_NO_NODE)
+/*
+ * v7.4: Add scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus().
+ */
+#define __COMPAT_scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus(cgrp) \
+ (bpf_ksym_exists(scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus) ? \
+ scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus(cgrp) : scx_bpf_nr_cpu_ids())
+
/*
* v6.18: Add a helper to retrieve the current task running on a CPU.
*
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-29 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-29 8:37 [PATCHSET sched_ext/for-7.4] sched_ext: Add scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus() Andrea Righi
2026-09-29 8:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] cgroup/cpuset: Protect is_in_v2_mode() in cpuset_num_cpus() Andrea Righi
2026-09-29 13:47 ` Michal Koutný
2026-09-29 15:32 ` Waiman Long
2026-09-29 17:35 ` Andrea Righi
2026-09-29 18:10 ` Waiman Long
2026-09-29 19:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-09-29 8:37 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2026-09-29 8:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests/sched_ext: Test scx_bpf_cgroup_nr_cpus() Andrea Righi
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