jiffy.

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

"Evan S." <evms at bu.edu> writes:
> > Yes, but it would be easier to answer your question if you told us
> > what you need the information for.
> Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over 
> to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example, process 
> 1's deadline is when jiffies=10 and so on. I just discovered the global 
> variable 'ticks' which seems to suit my needs, is this correct?

Yes - as far as I know our ticks and Linux's jiffies are exactly the
same thing.

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