timers: Only wake softirq if necessary

With the wheel forwading in place and with the HZ=1000 4ms folding we can
avoid running the softirq at all.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

kernel/time/timer.c

@@ -1608,7 +1608,18 @@ static void run_timer_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
  */
 void run_local_timers(void)
 {
+	struct timer_base *base = this_cpu_ptr(&timer_bases[BASE_STD]);
+
 	hrtimer_run_queues();
+	/* Raise the softirq only if required. */
+	if (time_before(jiffies, base->clk)) {
+		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON) || !base->nohz_active)
+			return;
+		/* CPU is awake, so check the deferrable base. */
+		base++;
+		if (time_before(jiffies, base->clk))
+			return;
+	}
 	raise_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 }