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>.