Merge branch 'improve-default-worker-count' into 'master'

[Runtime] use pthread_getaffinity_np to determine default worker count

Closes #19

See merge request i4/manycore/emper!211

emper/Runtime.cpp

@@ -264,6 +264,23 @@ auto Runtime::getDefaultWorkerCount() -> workerid_t {
 		return static_cast<workerid_t>(workerCountInt);
 	}
 
+	// The CPU count reported by sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN), sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
+	// or std::thread::hardware_concurrency() may not match the CPU count available
+	// to the emper process.
+	// This can happen for example if we run EMPER in a container or qemu.o
+	// GNU nproc(1) does report the correct CPU count using pthread_getaffinity_np
+	// which fills a cpu_set with the CPUs the current process can be scheduled on
+	// therefore we use this more precise CPU count if possible.
+	// Code inspiration taken from:
+	// https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blob/90e79512d8b385801218d6e9c4d88ff77186560b/lib/nproc.c#L206
+	cpu_set_t set;
+	if (pthread_getaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(set), &set) == 0) {
+		unsigned long count = CPU_COUNT(&set);
+		if (count > 0) {
+			return count;
+		}
+	}
+
 	return std::thread::hardware_concurrency();
 }