Hi, If I am not mistaken, higher value of sched_priority denotes higher priority. Therefore, looking at normal_prio = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 - task->rt_priority; you can see that a higher task->rt_priority will translate to a lower value of normal_prio, thereby occupying an earlier bit. Hope that helps - Karthik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html