September 15, 2006 WORKQUEUE 9

### NAME

workqueue - simple do-it-in-thread-context framework

### DESCRIPTION

The workqueue utility routines are provided to defer work which is needed to be processed in a thread context.

### CODE REFERENCES

This section describes places within the NetBSD source tree where actual code implementing the workqueue subsystem can be found. All pathnames are relative to ```/usr/src`.

The workqueue subsystem is implemented within the file ```sys/kern/subr_workqueue.c`.

### SEE ALSO

intro(9), workqueue_create(9), workqueue_destroy(9), workqueue_enqueue(9)