Name

queue_work — queue work on a workqueue

Synopsis

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

Arguments

wq

workqueue to use

work

work to queue

Description

Returns 0 if work was already on a queue, non-zero 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.