diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
index a171f05ad761f6f33f568c5b67976343890fb580..87f88259ddf67fb57945d31e2a25130f53fca033 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
@@ -151,18 +151,6 @@ static bool drm_sched_entity_is_idle(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 	return false;
 }
 
-/* Return true if entity could provide a job. */
-bool drm_sched_entity_is_ready(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
-{
-	if (spsc_queue_peek(&entity->job_queue) == NULL)
-		return false;
-
-	if (READ_ONCE(entity->dependency))
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 /**
  * drm_sched_entity_error - return error of last scheduled job
  * @entity: scheduler entity to check
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_internal.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_internal.h
index bd34898911d71fe621e243353516ca8bc2c384b8..23ceda8c32e592eb397cc1a3cba0b32c5d22c66f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_internal.h
@@ -45,4 +45,17 @@ drm_sched_entity_queue_peek(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 	return container_of(node, struct drm_sched_job, queue_node);
 }
 
+/* Return true if entity could provide a job. */
+static inline bool
+drm_sched_entity_is_ready(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
+{
+	if (!spsc_queue_count(&entity->job_queue))
+		return false;
+
+	if (READ_ONCE(entity->dependency))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 #endif
diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
index 1c1138308e66ff212ca031990b123dd73f290729..6cd0f288f6edb312ec2dc722e8deb96de540abfe 100644
--- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
+++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
@@ -632,7 +632,6 @@ struct drm_sched_job *drm_sched_entity_pop_job(struct drm_sched_entity *entity);
 void drm_sched_entity_push_job(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job);
 void drm_sched_entity_set_priority(struct drm_sched_entity *entity,
 				   enum drm_sched_priority priority);
-bool drm_sched_entity_is_ready(struct drm_sched_entity *entity);
 int drm_sched_entity_error(struct drm_sched_entity *entity);
 
 struct drm_sched_fence *drm_sched_fence_alloc(