netbsd man page for tvtohz

TVTOHZ(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual						 TVTOHZ(9)

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>.

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								 October 20, 2011							       BSD