schedule_delayed_work(9)

🎀 schedule_delayed_work(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's about schedule_delayed_work, and it's literally the "text you later" of the workqueue world 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

schedule_delayed_work — put a work task in the per-CPU workqueue after a delay 🕐✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool schedule_delayed_work (struct delayed_work *dwork , unsigned long
delay );

that's it, that's the whole vibe. it hands you back a bool, no cap 🫶

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dwork — the job to be done 🛠️ like, the actual work, the main character of this whole operation
• delay — number of jiffies to wait, or 0 for immediate execution ⚡ ngl 0 means "no thoughts, head empty, do it now"

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

After waiting for a given time, this puts a job in the system per-CPU workqueue. 🎀

like… you set the timer, you go live your life, and then boom — the job lands in the system per-CPU workqueue. it's giving "schedule it and forget it" energy fr fr 💜

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./include/linux/workqueue.h
• struct workqueue_attrs(9)
• work_pending(9)
• delayed_work_pending(9)
• alloc_workqueue(9)
• devm_alloc_workqueue(9)
• alloc_workqueue_lockdep_map(9)
• alloc_ordered_workqueue_lockdep_map(9)
• alloc_ordered_workqueue(9)
• queue_work(9)
• queue_delayed_work(9)
• mod_delayed_work(9)
• schedule_work_on(9)
• schedule_work(9)
• enable_and_queue_work(9)
• schedule_delayed_work_on(9)

the whole friend group, honestly 😭 go read the rest, iykyk 🌈

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and that's the page!! sourced from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, filed under schedule_delayed_work(9) — mwah, slay, periodt 💅💖🌸