It seems that run_hrtimer_queue() is calling get_softirq_time() more
often than it needs to.
With this patch, it only calls get_softirq_time() if there's a
pending timer.
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 {
        struct rb_node *node;
 
+       if (!base->first)
+               return;
+
        if (base->get_softirq_time)
                base->softirq_time = base->get_softirq_time();