NAME
tvtohz —
convert time interval to tick
count
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
int
tvtohz(
struct
timeval *tv);
DESCRIPTION
The
tvtohz() 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>.