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Revision e80eda94d3eaf1d12cfc97878eff77cd679dabc9 authored by Linus Torvalds on 23 October 2005, 17:02:50 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 October 2005, 17:02:50 UTC
Bursty timers aren't good for anybody, very much including latency for
other programs when we trigger lots of timers in interrupt context.  So
set a random limit, after which we'll handle the rest on the next timer
tick.

Noted by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tip revision: e80eda94d3eaf1d12cfc97878eff77cd679dabc9 authored by Linus Torvalds on 23 October 2005, 17:02:50 UTC
Posix timers: limit number of timers firing at once
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