man sched
Conceptually, the scheduler maintains a list of runnable threads for each possible sched_priority value. In order to determine which thread runs next, the scheduler looks for the nonempty list with the highest static priority and selects the thread at the head of this list.
A thread's scheduling policy determines where it will be inserted into the list of threads with equal static priority and how it will move inside this list.
embora exista mais uma política em tempo real, em que a prioridade não é (de todo?) significativa
In order to fulfil the guarantees that are made when a thread is admit‐ ted to the SCHED_DEADLINE policy, SCHED_DEADLINE threads are the high‐ est priority (user controllable) threads in the system; if any SCHED_DEADLINE thread is runnable, it will preempt any thread scheduled under one of the other policies.