Posix timers: limit number of timers firing at once

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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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kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c

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