timers: Spare timer softirq until next expiry
Now that the core timer infrastructure doesn't depend anymore on periodic base->clk increments, even when the CPU is not in NO_HZ mode, timer softirqs can be skipped until there are timers to expire. Some spurious softirqs can still remain since base->next_expiry doesn't keep track of canceled timers but this still reduces the number of softirqs significantly: ~15 times less for HZ=1000 and ~5 times less for HZ=100. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200717140551.29076-11-frederic@kernel.org
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