METHOD AND NODE FOR MANAGING A REQUEST FOR HARDWARE ACCELERATION BY MEANS OF AN ACCELERATOR DEVICE

摘要

A method and a hardware acceleration managing node for managing a request for hardware acceleration (HA). The hardware acceleration managing node receives, from a HA interfacing node, the request for hardware acceleration of processing of source data. The hardware acceleration managing node sends an indication of a source memory location(s) for storing of the source data. The hardware acceleration managing node selects one or more hardware acceleration devices. The hardware acceleration managing node receives a chunk of code to be accelerated. The hardware acceleration managing node sends, to the one hardware acceleration device, a set of acceleration instructions related to the chunk of code and the indication of the source memory location. The hardware acceleration managing node receives an indication of a result memory location indicating result data. The hardware acceleration managing node sends an indication of completed hardware acceleration to the HA interfacing node.