How to sleep a kernel thread?

From: Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 17:11:11 EDT

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    Hi! I'm working on the usb mass storage support for linux. For this, we
    have a kernel thread which blocks on a semaphore (used to indicate the
    number of commands in the queue).

    The problem is, when I block on the semaphore, the process is still marked
    as runnable, and thus drives the load average up to 1.00. How do I sleep
    so that I don't drive up the load? Or how do I mark the process as
    sleeping on a semaphore for the purposes of load average calculation?

    Matt Dharm 

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