schedule_work_on(9)

✨ schedule_work_on — the kernel workqueue API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this page is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's about schedule_work_on. it's short, it's sweet, and it's gonna make your work land exactly where you want it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

schedule_work_on — put work task on a specific cpu

like, you have a job. you have a cpu. you want the job on that cpu. that's the whole vibe.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bool schedule_work_on (int cpu , struct work_struct *work );

yes the spacing is exactly like that, don't come for me, that's just how it's printed 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• cpu — cpu to put the work task on. that's it, that's the whole thing, you pick the cpu, the cpu gets the work ✨
• work — job to be done. the actual thing you want done. the main character of the operation 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This puts a job on a specific cpu.

literally that's what it says, and honestly? iconic. no fluff, no drama, no seventeen-paragraph backstory — you hand it a job, you hand it a cpu, it puts the job on that cpu. periodt 🔥

ngl, this one's a "the name tells you everything" situation. schedule_work_on — you're scheduling work on something. the something is the cpu. no cap 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're the whole friend group 🧚:

• Kernel file ./include/linux/workqueue.h — plus 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(9)
• enable_and_queue_work(9)
• schedule_delayed_work_on(9)
• schedule_delayed_work(9)

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and that's the page!! 🌸 star ⭐ moment for the source path ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and yeah — this whole read was schedule_work_on(9) from the Kernel API Manual. go put your work on a cpu, bestie, you got this 💜🦋🎀