NAME
tvtohz —
convert time interval to tick
count
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/time.h>
int
tvtohz(struct
timeval *tv);
DESCRIPTION
Thetvtohz()
function accepts a single argument tv which specifies
the time interval over which to calculate the number of system ticks that
would elapse.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the integral number of system ticks expected to elapse in the given interval, including the current tick.
SEE ALSO
timeval(3), callout(9), microtime(9), microuptime(9), mstohz(9)
HISTORY
The tvtohz function first appeared in
FreeBSD 3.0 and was ported to
NetBSD 4.0 as a part of
timecounter(9) framework.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>.