Global Weights in SLES 11 Priority Scheduler - comment by carrie

Sandeep,
 
You are correct that for the Appliance, the global weight that is available for Timeshare workloads is 1 or 100% of all global weight in the system, since there is only a single virtual partition and no SLG Tiers.
 
An individual workload in Timeshare Low will never have a global weight that is higher than a workload in Timeshare Medium.  The global weight of a Timeshare Medium workload will always be two times the global weight of an individual Timeshare Low workload. The Timeshare access rate factors into the calculation of global weight, and the access rate of Medium is double (2) the access rate of Low (1).  Workloads from higher access levels will always carry a higher global weight.   If you look at the Timeshare Global Weight Calculation above in the spreadsheet you will see that each Medium workload has a global weight of 0.9% and each Low workload has a global weight of 0.4% (some rounding happens).
 
If you have many more workloads in Low than in Medium, it is possible the sum of their individual global weights could be higher than the sum of the global weights of all workloads in Medium.   But comparing one workload in Medium against one workload in Low, Medium will always be double.
 
Tactical work always runs in Work08/09, on the Appliance and on the EDW platform.    You can, if you need, reserve AWTs for tactical on the Appliance, in the same way as you would on the EDW platform.
 
Thanks, -Carrie