[justinclift]

Wonder how that'd work - in practical terms - with modern systems?

eg, you could be running (say) 3 or 4 primary applications at the same time. Which one gets to use the FPGA pieces, or are they re-written every time, on every context switch? ;)

Re-writing them on every context switch sounds extremely unlikely, so it'd be more some kind of resource locking thing instead. Which could mean that FPGA-using applications at least start out being fairly niche, as only one could run "per core" or something.

Maybe dedicated cores per application instead or something?

[freeqaz]

The work is already being put in with modern NUMA (non-uniform memory access) systems to pin apps to specific cores. This seems like it would overlap if this ended up being used in production.

[apsient]

how about having FPGA execution units in addition to the normal units and os deciding how and who will use these new EUs based on the most CPU intensive apps running currently