Assigning a relative priority value to a thread

A thread can be assigned one of the five relative priority values:

• EPriorityMuchLess

• EPriorityLess

• EPriorityNormal

• EPriorityMore

• EPriorityMuchMore

which are enumerators of the TThreadPriority enumeration. These priority values are assigned through RThread::SetPriority().

The resulting absolute priority of a thread is the sum of this relative priority value and the priority value of its owning process.

The following diagram shows the possible absolute priority values of a thread when its owning process has a priority value of EPriorityBackground.