Name

queue_work — queue work on a workqueue

Synopsis

bool queue_work (struct workqueue_struct * wq,
 struct work_struct * work);
 

Arguments

wq

workqueue to use

work

work to queue

Description

Returns false if work was already on a queue, true otherwise.

We queue the work to the CPU on which it was submitted, but if the CPU dies it can be processed by another CPU.