schedule_work(9)

schedule_work9

Put work task in global workqueue

Usage

int schedule_work(struct work_struct * work);

Arguments

work

job to be done

Overview

Returns zero if work was already on the kernel-global workqueue and non-zero otherwise.

This puts a job in the kernel-global workqueue if it was not already queued and leaves it in the same position on the kernel-global workqueue otherwise.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7

From linux-manual-3.2 3.2.78-1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.