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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
copyrights:
- Copyright (C) 1988, 1998 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
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term: priority
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The priority is a mechanism used to represent the relative importance of an
element in a set of items.
For example, ${rtems:/term} uses ${priority-task:/plural} to determine which
${task:/term} should execute on a processor. In RTEMS, priorities are
represented by non-negative integers.
For the Classic ${api:/term}, if a numerical priority value ``A`` is greater
than a numerical priority value ``B``, then ``A`` expresses a
${priority-lower:/term} than ``B``. If a numerical priority value ``C`` is
less than a numerical priority value ``D``, then ``C`` expresses a
${priority-higher:/term} than ``D``.
For the ${posix:/term} API, if a numerical priority value ``R`` is less than
a numerical priority value ``S``, then ``R`` expresses a lower priority than
``S``. If a numerical priority value ``T`` is greater than a numerical
priority value ``U``, then ``T`` expresses a higher priority than ``U``.
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